Soldier's Tear, The

DESCRIPTION: "Upon the hill he turned To take a last fond look Of the valley and the village church." The soldier wipes away a tear as he leaves home. His girl prays as he leaves. He will be brave now that he has "wiped away the tear"
AUTHOR: Words: Alexander Lee / Music: T. H Bayley (source: Heart-Songs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1854 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold); before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Bod4395 Johnson Ballads 267)
KEYWORDS: soldier travel separation home
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 200, "The Soldier's Tear" (1 text, 1 text fragment, 1 tune)
Heart-Songs, pp. 474-475, "The Soldier's Tear" (1 text)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 110, "The Soldier's Tear" (1 text)
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, p. 98, "The Soldier's Tear" (1 text)
Roud #13900
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Bod4395 Johnson Ballads 267, "The soldier's tear" ("Upon the hill he turn'd"), J.Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Bod2112 Harding B 11(2624), Bod14113 Harding B 11(938), "Soldier's Tear"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Sailor's Tear" (adapted from this)
File: HeSo474

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