When Your Boy Comes Back to You

DESCRIPTION: "Keep the lamp of hope still brightly burning Till your boy comes back to you... Ev'ry day your far apart you grow dearer to his heart Till your boy comes back to you." The girl is advised to "Wear a bright and sunny smile" until the soldiers return
AUTHOR: Gordon V. Thompson (source: Sheet music reproduced by Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (source: Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
KEYWORDS: soldier separation love war
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p.120, "When You Boy Comes Back to You" (1 text)
NOTES [31 words]: It should be noted as regards World War I that the problem was not boys or girls who turned unfaithful before the soldiers returned home, it was all the boys who never returned at all. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.6
File: AWTBW120

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography