School Days

DESCRIPTION: "'Tis sweet to go back in memory To days of youth so dear to me When we could find a secluded spot And gather the blue forget-me-not." The singer recalls when "life was smooth as a poet's rhyme." He fondly remembers the old schoolhouse and childhood
AUTHOR: Edgar Hamm?
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: nonballad youth
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thomas-BalladMakingInMountainsOfKentucky, pp. 251-252, "School Days" (1 text) (OakEd, pp. 251-252)
NOTES [18 words]: This sounds so nineteenth-century-parlor-song, it's uncanny. But I don't know of any sheet music version. - RBW
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File: ThBa251A

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