Take This Letter to My Mother. Lyric Variant 01

Two leaves of lined paper handwritten in pencil on the front sides. The document is in good physical condition. The document was laminated, with the leaves side by side. The upper left corner of the first leaf was folded into the laminate. There is lamination-related creasing on the document. There are stains of unknown origin throughout the document. The document was folded horizontally into thirds, possibly for mailing.

Popular music -- United States Mothers and sons Letters -- Songs and music Prayers -- Songs and music

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William Shakespeare Hays [Will Hays], 1837-1907

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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English

Manuscript

Take this letter too my
mother far a cross the Deep
Blue sea it will fill her heart
With pleasure she'll be glad
to here from me
how she wept when last we
parted ah her heart was
filled with pain when she
said good By God Bless You
we may never meet a gain
2 take this letter to my mother
it will fill her heart with
joy tell her that her prayers
are answered God protects
her rambling Boy
tell her to Be glad and
thankful pray for me wher'er
I roam and E Er long I'll
turn my footsteps Back
toward my Dear old home

Take This Letter to My Mother, Lyric Variant 01

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

1877

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