My Gentle Mother Dear

DESCRIPTION: "There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest toe bright fairy tales did tell... When I was in that happy place upon my mother's knee." The singer recalls how she cared for him as he slept or was sick
AUTHOR: Samuel Lover (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1860 (LoversIrishSongs)
KEYWORDS: mother home
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
LoversIrishSongs, p, 52, "My Mother Dear" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1520, p. 104, "My Mother Dear" (2 references)
Roud #13805
File: LoIS052A

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