====== #499 - My Boy Across the Sea ======
[[..:498:|prev]] | [[..:500:|next]]
/*-20note-*/
  *Composer:
    *++William Shakespeare Hays|{{search>"William Shakespeare Hays" @cobs}}++ (1837-1907), 1873
  *[[/data/media/midi/499.mid|MIDI]] | ++show|\\ {{http://www.rollerorgans.com/mid2roll.php?cob=499&.gif?}}++
  *[[:incipit]]: 555132215551342
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 5132151342
  *[[/cob_label/index.php|Print a Label]]
  *++Lyrics:|\\
\\
'Twas a sad, sad hour of parting,\\
And my heart has known no joy,\\
Since he kissed me on the doorstep,\\
Since I parted from my boy.\\
He has gone among the strangers,\\
Many, many miles from me,\\
And I pray for God's protection,\\
For my boy across the sea.\\
\\
//chorus: //\\
Oh! I know he dreams of loved ones,\\
And he often thinks of me,\\
While I weep tears of affection,\\
For my boy across the sea.\\
\\
When we parted on the doorstep,\\
Tears of sorrow dimm'd his eye,\\
And I felt my heart was breaking,\\
When he sadly said "goodbye!"\\
His father, sisters, brothers,\\
Shared their sorrows too, with me,\\
For they knew a mother's feelings,\\
For her boy across the sea.\\
\\
He has gone, perhaps forever,\\
We may never meet again,\\
All his hopes of home and mother,\\
May be buried where he's lain.\\
But I care not where he's sleeping,\\
His last thoughts will surely be,\\
That his poor, heartbroken mother,\\
Loved her boy across the sea.\\
\\
++
    *++William Shakespeare Hays|{{search>"William Shakespeare Hays" @cobs}}++ (1837-1907), 1873