Mother Kissed Me in My Dream

DESCRIPTION: "Lying on my dying bed Through the dark and silent night... Came a vision to my sight. Near me stood the forms I loved... Mother kissed me in my dream." The soldier asks comrades to tell mother that he fought hard and did his duty. He dies happy
AUTHOR: Words: George Cooper / Music: John Rogers Thomas (1830-1896) (source: sheet music published by William A. Pond & Co.)
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: death soldier mother dream | kiss
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Up-In-a-Balloon-Songster, p. 40, "Mother Kissed Me in My Dream" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1468, p. 100, "Mother Kissed Me in My Dream" (8 references)
Roud #13921
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, Crawford.EB.1468, "Mother Kidd's Me In My Dream," unknown, n.d.
NOTES [27 words]: This is supposedly founded on an incident at the Battle of Antietam. Curious, then, that it was not published until 1864, since Antietam was fought in 1862. - RBW
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