#156 - Listen to The Mocking Bird

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• Composer:
  • Richard Milburn, 1855
• Early Arrangements
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• Incipit: 5557672165576551555767213346666571
• Condensed Incipit: 576721657651576721346571
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• Lyrics:
  Last night I dreamed of my Halley
  Of my Halley, my sweet Halley
  Last night I dreamed of my Halley
  For the thought of her is one that never dies
  
  She's sleeping now in the valley
  In the valley, my sweet Halley
  She's sleeping now in the valley
  And the Mockingbird is singing where she lies
  
  Listen to the Mockingbird, listen to the Mockingbird
  Oh the Mockingbird is singing oe'er her grave
  Listen to the Mockingbird, listen to the Mockingbird
  Still singing where the yellow roses grow
  
  How well do I yet remember
  I remember, I remember
  How well do I yet remember
  For the thought of her is one that never dies
  
  It was in that sweet September
  In September, I remember
  It was in that sweet September
  That the Mockingbird was singing far and wide
  
  Listen to the Mockingbird, listen to the Mockingbird
  Oh the Mocking bird still singing oe'er her grave
  Listen to the Mockingbird, listen to the Mockingbird
  Oh the Mockingbird still singing in the spring
  
  
  • Septimus Winner

    • #156 - Listen to The Mocking Bird
    • #292 - The Party at the Zoo
    • #1002 - Lauterbach (The Lauterbach Maiden—German)
    • #2069 - University March

    (1827-1902)

Septimus Winner published under the name Alice Hawthorne and credited Milburn for the the melody, but subsequent publications omitted Milburn's name.