Love's Old Sweet Song

DESCRIPTION: In our youth at dusk love's song "wove itself into our dream." Now, "still to us at twilight comes love's old song." "Till the end, when life's dim shadows fall" love is found "the sweetest song of all"
AUTHOR: Words: J. Clinton Bingham ; Tune: James L. Molloy (1884) (Source: MUNFLA/Leach; Heart-Songs; Fuld)
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: age love nonballad
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Heart-Songs, pp. 276-277, "Love's Old, Sweet Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd, #53, "Love's Old, Sweet Song" (1 text)
Harbin-Parodology, #311, p. 74, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 339, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (notes only)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 20, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
National-4HClubSongBook, p. 63, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
OneTuneMore, p. 53, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, pp. 342-343, "Love's Old Sweet Song"
Roud #18217
RECORDINGS:
John McCormack, "Love's Old Sweet Song" (Victor 6776, 1927)
Maudie Sullivan, "Just a Song At Twilight" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
SAME TUNE:
(Boy Scout) Camp Fire Song (cf. Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 338)
NOTES [81 words]: The description follows McCormack's recording. Maudie Sullivan's is a fragment. Maudie Sullivan sang another McCormack song indexed here: "Little Town in the Old County Down." - BS
There was a 1914 pop song, "Love's Old Sweet Song," with words by C. C. S. Cushing and E.P. Heath and music by E. Kalman, from the English adaption of "Henry W. Savage's New Operette Sári (Der Zigeunerprimas)." It does not appear to be this, although it may well have been inspired by this older song. - RBW
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