Send Me Away with a Smile

DESCRIPTION: "Little girl, don't cry, I must say goodbye, Don't you hear the bugle call?" The singer is a soldier and must leave; she wouldn't like it if he stayed behind. "Send me away with a smile" so that he can do what needs to be done
AUTHOR: WOrds: Louis Weslyn .Music Al Piantadosi (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar)
KEYWORDS: soldier separation | smile
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, pp. 288-290, "Send Me Away with a Smile" (1 text)
Roud #V58839
NOTES [54 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 218, estimates that this was the thirty-eighth most popular song in America in 1917, peaking at #15 in November of that year (#1 for the year being George M. Cohan's "Over There"). - RBW
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