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Songs and Stories of Mother, Childhood, and Home

Editor: P. P. Bilhorn
Publisher: Bilhorn Bros, Chicago, Ill., 1903
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d1A prayer on the wings of an angel
d2Ah well I remember in youth's sunny hour
d3Along a crowded thoroughfare
d4Angels bear the news to mother
d5[As] I walk [walked] through [in] the woodland meadow [meadows]
d6As I wandered round the homestead
d7As the shadows of evening were falling
d8At home or away, in the alley or street
d9Away from the home that sheltered thy youth
d10Blessings on the hand of woman
d11Carry me back to my mother's true love
d12Come near to the bedside of mother, my boy
d13Do they see me at home
d14For mother's sake, my boy, say No
d15Have you wandered far from home
d16I am going home to mother
d17I am thinking tonight of the far away years
d18I hear the soft wind sighing
d19I knelt by my mother
d20I learned it in the long ago
d21I never can forget the day I heard my mother kindly say
d22I recall a cozy corner
d23I saw my mother kneeling
d24In a dark and gloomy prison
d25In a lonely graveyard [churchyard], many miles away
d26In my childhood's happy days
d27In the sweet days of my childhood
d28I've a tender recollection
d29I've been thinking today of thos years of long ago
d30Kiss me, mother, kiss me gently
d31Like the sheep that's gone astray
d32Long ago in childhood's happy days
d33Memory paints a picture very dear to me
d34My darling arose in the bright early mroning
d35My mother pressed me to her breast
d36Oft within a little cottage
d37Out in the wide world, and far away from home
d38Precious mother, I am going
d39Sadly tonight I am sitting
d40Shall I meet my sainted mother
d41Sing to me, mother's sweet lullaby song
d42Some mother's boy, who can he be
d43Somebody's mother is kneeling tonight
d44There comes to my heart one [a] sweet strain
d45There's a dear and precious book
d46There's an old dusty attic
d47There's many a lovely picture
d48They sing to me of paradise
d49Through the years of pride and promise
d50'Tis a simple twilight picture
d51'Twas in the days of careless youth
d52When I was but a little child
d53When my steps are homeward turning
d54Where is my wandering boy tonight
d55You may wander far away
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