Do They Miss Me at Home?

DESCRIPTION: "Do they miss me at home, do they miss me?" The singer asks for assurance that he is remembered. He recounts various ways people might show how they miss them.
AUTHOR: Words: Caroline Atherton Mason / Music: S. M. Grannis
EARLIEST DATE: 1852 (sheet music published by Oliver Ditson & Co.)
KEYWORDS: home separation loneliness nonballad
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Randolph 858, "Do They Miss Me at Home?" (1 text)
Huntington-TheGam-MoreSongsWhalemenSang, pp. 294-295, "Do They Miss Me At Home?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-SongsOfTheCivilWar, pp. 131-133, "Do They Miss Me at Home?" (1 text, 1 tune); also p. 133, "Do They Miss Me in the Trenches" (1 text, a parody of the preceding)
Spaeth-WeepSomeMoreMyLady, p. 18, "Do They Miss Me at Home?" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #494, p. 33, "Do They Miss Me at Home" (3 references)
Dime-Song-Book #1/72, p. 35 and #1/64 p. 35, "Do they miss me at Home" (1 text)
DT, DOMISSME*
Roud #4366
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Do They Think of Me at Home?" (subject)
SAME TUNE:
Do They Miss Me in the Trenches (Silber-SongsOfTheCivilWar, p. 133)
NOTES [47 words]: This is the very first song in Spaeth's chapter "The School of Self-Pity." Which about sums it up.
This and "Do They Think of Me at Home?" are similar enough that Roud, although he gives them two separate numbers, seems to mix them. The verse forms are rather different, though. - RBW
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File: R858

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