Only a Face in the Firelight

DESCRIPTION: The singer, an old man dozing by the fire, thinks of a sweetheart of long ago: "a face in the firelight asking why we should part"
AUTHOR: Charles Shackford (source: notes to ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
EARLIEST DATE: 1904 (recording by James McCook, according to notes to ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
KEYWORDS: age courting love parting dream
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #26944
RECORDINGS:
Petchie Nash and Frankie Nash, "Only a Face in the Firelight" (on ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
File: ITMAOaFF

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