Title
Battleship Maine (II), Sheet Music 03
Description
One leaf preprinted with staff lines handwritten in pencil on the front side. The document is in excellent physical condition. The document was laminated. There is a handwritten check mark at the lower right corner.
Subject
Popular music -- United States Maine (Battleship) -- Songs and music Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Songs and music Love -- Songs and music Patriotism -- Songs and music
Alternative Title
My Sweetheart Went Down on the Maine, The Gallant Sailor
Source
Published by The Morgan Music Company, Macomb, Illinois. c. 1898.
Publisher
W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University
Language
Musical notation, English
English
Transcription
The Battleship Maine
12/8
Once I had a sweetheart, noble, brave, and true.
fearless as the sunrise, gentle as the dew
We had loved and waited, he had named the day.
We had pledged to wed each other in the month of May. We had pledged to wed each other
in the month of May. Out on the high seas he sailed
under the Red, white & Blue. Faithful to country & home
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