Dear Old New Zealand

DESCRIPTION: "Here's to New Zealand, so far away; That's where I'll ever be in memory each night and day, And now as I wander, my thoughts ever stray, Back to New Zealand...." He toasts his family, longs to return home; when he wakes, he can only think of home
AUTHOR: music: "South of the Border" by Jimmy Kennedy (words) and Michael Carr (music)
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1942 (according to Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook, but no source is cited; "South of the Border" is from 1939)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand home derivative
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook, pp. 70-71, "Dear Old New Zealand" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "South of the Border" (tune)
cf. "East of the Border" (tune)
cf. "South of the Sangro" (tune)
cf. "South of Columbo" (tune)
cf. "The Battle of the River Plate" (tune)
File: Clev070

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