Hazel Dell, The

DESCRIPTION: "In the Hazel Dell my Nelly's sleeping, Nelly loved so long... All alone my watch I'm keeping In the Hazel Dell; For my darling Nelly's near me sleeping, Nelly, dear, farewell!" He says that her memory will be with him always
AUTHOR: "Wurzel" (George F. Root) (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1853 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love death
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dime-Song-Book #4/72, p. 52 and #4/64, p. 52, "The Hazel Dell" (1 text)
Wandering-Refugee-Songster, p. 22, "The Hazel Dell" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #861, p. 58, "The Hazel Dell" (1 reference)
Roud #13780
NOTES [50 words]: George F. Root sometimes used the pseudonym "Wurzel" because "Wurzel" is German for "Root"; for background on this, see the notes to "Rosalie the Prairie Flower."
Some sources say the words to this are by Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby, who supplied the words for some of George F. Root's melodies. - RBW
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File: WRSo022

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