Baggage Coach Ahead, Sheet Music 01

Two leaves (one partial) with preprinted staff lines. The document is in good physical condition. The two leaves are laminated together. The upper left corner of the first leaf and the lower left corner of the second leaf were folded into the laminate. There are staple holes and related rust stains at the upper right corner and at the lower left corner of the first leaf. There are staple holes and related rust stains at the upper left corner of the second leaf. There are minor rust stains at the upper edge of the first leaf. There is a moderate tear at the lower left corner of the first leaf. There is a handwritten check mark at the lower right corner of the second leaf. The text comes from an 1896 song by Gussie Lord Davis, 1863-1899.

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Baggage Coach

Gussie Lord Davis, 1863-1899

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

5/4/2007

I. G. Greer

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Musical notation, English

English

Sheet music

In the Baggage Coach Ahead

On a dark & stormy night, as the train rattled on, all the
passengers had gone to bed except one young man with a babe in his arms
who sat with a bowed down head.

The innocent one began crying just then as
if its poor heart would break. Make that child stop its noise an angry man said for its keeping us all awake. dont keep it in here we have

O, where is its mother go take it to her a
lady then softly said. I wish that I could was the young man's reply but she's dead in the coach ahead

Put it out said another
paid for our berths and cant rest, but never a word said the man with the child as he
fondled it close to his breast As the train rattled onward a
husband sat in tears thinking of the happiness of

Baggage Coach Ahead (continued)

just a few short years while baby's face brings
pictures of a cherished hope thats dead but babies cries can't
waken her in the baggage coach ahead.

Baggage Coach Ahead, Sheet Music 01

In the Baggage Coach Ahead

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

1896

Randolph, 704

165 mm x 211 mm (1), 165 mm x 98 mm (2)

2013-10-22

113_BaggageCoachAhead_Sheet_01

2008-08-18

Paul L. Robertson