Willie We Have Missed You

DESCRIPTION: "Oh! Willie, is it you, dear, safe, safe at home? They did not tell me true, dear, they said you would not come." "Oh, Willie, we have missed you -- welcome, welcome home!" Everything was awful while Willie was gone
AUTHOR: Stephen C. Foster
EARLIEST DATE: 1854 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: separation home
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REFERENCES (5 citations):
Spaeth-WeepSomeMoreMyLady, pp. 19-20, "Willie We Have Missed You" (1 text, 1 tune)
Little-Maggie-May-Songster, p. 61, "Willie, We Have Missed You" (1 text)
Wandering-Refugee-Songster, p. 14, "Willie, We Have Missed You" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #1/72, p. 12 and #1/64 p. 12, "Willie, we hace Missed You" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #2654, p. 180, "Willie We Have Missed You" (4 references)
Roud #2689
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, Crawford.EB.1593, "Willie, We Have Missed You," unknown (n.d.); also Crawford.EB.3518, "Willie, We Have Missed You," unknown (n.d.)
SAME TUNE:
Annie, We Have Parted ("Oh! Annie, we have parted, my happy dream is o'er, I leave thee broken-hearded, to meet perchance no more") (We-Parted-By-the-River-Side-Songster, p. 28)
File: LMMS061

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