Vacant Chair (II), The

DESCRIPTION: "The memory of days gone bye is very sad to me; A vacant chair is standing nigh And there no form I see." "The little darling of our home Once occupied that chair," but "Now she blooms in heaven above And left the vacant chair."
AUTHOR: Words: C. T. Cochran / Music: J. M. Henson (source: Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley)
KEYWORDS: children death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brumley-LamplitinTimeInTheValley 50, "The Vacant Chair" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [25 words]: Roud lumps this with George F. Root's well-known "The Vacant Chair," but it's patently not; that's about a dead soldier, this is about a dead child. - RBW
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File: ABLT050

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