Brother's Fainting at the Door

DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes a weary soldier, With faltering steps across the moor." He was thought to be lost, but he is here. Call mother. He had been in prison but now is free. You too should watch; "You may have an absent brother Fainting at a stranger's door"
AUTHOR: Words: E Bowers / Music: P. B. Isaacs (source: broadside at the Library Company of Philadelphia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (ShillingSongBook3)
KEYWORDS: brother soldier mother home
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
ShillingSongBook3, pp. 14-15, "Brother's Fainting at the Door" (1 text)
Dime-Song-Book #12, pp. 7-8, "Brother's Fainting at the Door" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #213, p. 16, "Brother's Fainting at the Door" (8 references)
Roud #38186
NOTES [24 words]: At least one of the de Marsan broadsides lists the composer as "P. R. Isaacs," but the majority say "P. B. Isaacs," so I have followed that. - RBW
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File: ShS3014

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