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Way Down On Tampa Bay, A. Seymour Brown, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co. Jan 1914

Way Down On Tampa Bay, A. Seymour Brown, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women looking over a bay and town at night while a full moon is out. Ships are sailing in the bay.

First line of song: Twilight is falling, I'm so lonesome and blue

First line of chorus: On Tampa Bay the moon beams play

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Love Me like the Ivy loves the Old Oak Tree" and "I'll Do It All Over Again"

Lyric by A. Seymour Brown

Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

1 score, (6p), 35x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & CO, New York


Sweet Little Woman O' Mine, Frank Stanton, Floy Little Bartlett, The Arthur P. Schmidt Co. Jan 1914

Sweet Little Woman O' Mine, Frank Stanton, Floy Little Bartlett, The Arthur P. Schmidt Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: She ain't any bit of an Angel This sweet little woman o' mine

First line of chorus: This sweet little woman o' mine

Words by Frank Stanton

To be sung very tenderly

Soprano or Tenor

Composed by Floy Little Bartlett.

From "Comes One with a Song" by Frank L. Stanton.

1 score, (6p.), 29x22 cm

Published by The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., New York


I Love The Ladies, Grant Clarke, Jean Schwartz, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co Jan 1914

I Love The Ladies, Grant Clarke, Jean Schwartz, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of four women standing in formal dresses and one man in a tuxedo down on one knee looking up towards the women with one arm outstretched.

First line of song: Young Johnny Dunn was twenty one, he liked to dance in each cafe.

First line of chorus: I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love to be among the girls

Includes sheet music sample from the song "When The Angelus is Ringing"

Words by Grant Clarke

Music by Jean Schwartz

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New …


Diane Of The Green Van, J. Will Callahan, F. Henri Klickmann, Frank K. Root & Co Jan 1914

Diane Of The Green Van, J. Will Callahan, F. Henri Klickmann, Frank K. Root & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman sitting on the back steps of a wagon with her legs crossed at the ankles and her hands clasped.

First line of song: Now the silvry moon is beaming as I watch beside the trail

First line of chorus: Slumber on, my wildwood flower, sweetly sleep and dream of love

Moderato

Lyric by J. Will Callahan

Music by F. Henri Klickmann

Dedicated to Miss Leona Dalrymple

Song adapted from the $10,000 Price Novel

1 score, (6p.), 34x26 cm

Published by Frank K. Root & Co, New York


California And You, Edgar Leslie, Harry Puck, Kalmar & Puck Music Co. Inc Jan 1914

California And You, Edgar Leslie, Harry Puck, Kalmar & Puck Music Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple standing together outside in a garden with trees around them.

First line of song: Oh! you old Pacific coast, Oh! you land I love the most,

First line of chorus: Don't you remember California in September?

Moderato

Words by Edgar Leslie

Music by Harry Puck

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Let by-gones by by-gones.

Sung by Billy Shirley

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Kalmar & Puck Music Co. Inc, New York


Down In Waterloo, Alfred Bryan, Albert Gumble, Jack Wells, Jerome H. Remick & Co Jan 1914

Down In Waterloo, Alfred Bryan, Albert Gumble, Jack Wells, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman kissing her soldier good bye while there are other soldiers in the background.

First line of song: I went abroad last May, off for a holiday, I went to England then over to France

First line of chorus: I went down from Brussels town to Waterloo

Moderato

Include sheet music samples form the songs "I Wonder Where My Lovin' Man Has Gone" and "When It's Night Time Down In Burgundy"

Popular Edition

Sung by Al Jolson at the New Winter Garden Show "Dancing Around"

Words by Alfred Bryan

Music by Albert Gumble and …


There's A Long, Long Trail, Stoddard King, Zo Elliot, M. Witmark & Sons Jan 1914

There's A Long, Long Trail, Stoddard King, Zo Elliot, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Includes Marching Chorus: Tempo - In Martial Time (But not fast)

First line of song: Nights are growing very lonely, days are very long;

No Cover Art

First line of chorus: There's a long, long trail a winding in to the land of my dreams.

Moderato

Moderato, with expression

Chorus: Evenly with much expression

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Teach Me To Pray", "I Come To Thee", "It Was For Me", "Can't Yo Heah Me Callin', Caroline", "Honey, If Yo' Only Knew" and "Freedom For All Forever"

Sung by Mr John McCormack

Written by Stoddard King

Composed by …


This Is The Life, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co Jan 1914

This Is The Life, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A girl sitting on a chair looking forward.

First line of song: Farmer Brown came to town, Started to take in the sight:

First line of chorus: I love the cows and chickens, but this is the life, this is the life!

All'o Mod'to

Successfully introduced by Belle Baker

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Waterson , Berlin & Snyder Co., New York


Wrap Me In A Bundle And Take Me Home With You, Gus Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co Jan 1914

Wrap Me In A Bundle And Take Me Home With You, Gus Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman coming out of a hat box with roses and rope in the front.

First line of song:Mary Brown sold flowers and candy,

First line of chorus: Wrap me in a bundle, dear, and take me home with you,

Words by Gus Kahn

Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

1 score, (6p.), 34x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York


When It's Night-Time Down In Burgundy, Alfred Bryan, Herman Paley, Jerome H. Remick & Co Jan 1914

When It's Night-Time Down In Burgundy, Alfred Bryan, Herman Paley, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a late night with a full moon in the sky hiding behind the hills. With a church surrounded by forestry and pink flowers, while a girl with a basket and eight geese walk down a path.

First line of song: She lives in Burgundy, She's all the world to me

Moderato

First line of chorus: When it's night- time down in Burgundy I want to be with you.

Words by Alfred Bryan

Music by Herman Paley

Included sheet music samples from the song "The Rose Of The Mountain Trail"

Vamp

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm …


Mary Jane, Estelle Merrymon Clark, Palmer John Clark, Gamble Hinged Music Co. Jan 1914

Mary Jane, Estelle Merrymon Clark, Palmer John Clark, Gamble Hinged Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a rectangular brick patterned border.

First line of song: Mary Jane, Mary Jane, Little Lady of the lane

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "A Thought" and "My Creed"

Allegretto

To Ethel Connely Cutler

Love Lyrics by Estelle Merrymon Clark

Set to music by Palmer John Clark

Played in High

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Gamble Hinged Music Co., Chicago


Dance That Dengozo With Me "Oo-La-La", W. L. Beardsley, George L. Cobb, Will Rossiter Jan 1914

Dance That Dengozo With Me "Oo-La-La", W. L. Beardsley, George L. Cobb, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple dancing with zig zag patterns behind them. To the left of the couple are two photos. In the top photo, three men are peaking out from a stage curtain. They are identified as Frank Francis, Bert Rome and Dick Park. Under this photo is another of the three men sitting, poising before a window. In between the two pictures are the words: Park Rome and Francis "Songs-Smiles and Stuff"

First line of song: There's a tune that everyone's dancing, slow and dreamy

First line of chorus: Play it, oh, play it, that Dengozo …


When The Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies ("I'Ve Got To Love 'Em That's All"), Joe Young, Edgar Leslie, Maurice Abrahams, Maurice Abrahams Music Co. Inc Jan 1914

When The Grown Up Ladies Act Like Babies ("I'Ve Got To Love 'Em That's All"), Joe Young, Edgar Leslie, Maurice Abrahams, Maurice Abrahams Music Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman with a umbrella and a portrait of a man in the lower right corner of the page with the words Willie Weston.

First line of song: Pretty little Flo was jealous of her beau

First line of chorus: When the grown up ladies act like babies, I've got to love 'em that's all

Al. Jolson's Terrific Hit at the "New" Winter Garden Show "Dancing Around"

Willie Weston

Words by Joe Young and Edgar Leslie

Music by Maurice Abrahams

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Why Are You Breaking My Heart", and "Ruff …


The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine, Ballard Macdonald, Harry Carroll, Edna Whistler, Shapiro Music Co Jan 1913

The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine, Ballard Macdonald, Harry Carroll, Edna Whistler, Shapiro Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman sitting at the top of a waterfall in the mountains while a man with a horse looks up at her near a pine tree. Picture of women in lower left corner with the words Edna Whistler.

First line of song: On a mountain in Virginia stands a lonesome pine

First line of chorus: In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, on the trail of the lone some pine.

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "On The Mississippi", "Oh! What A Beautiful Dream", "Down Old Harmony Way", "Roll On, Missouri", "Our Little …


We Have Much To Be Thankful For, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. Jan 1913

We Have Much To Be Thankful For, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a woman in the bottom left corner with the words Madge Maitland

First line of song: Sweetheart, I love but you, I know you love me too,

First line of chorus: We have eyes to behold one another,

Valse mod'to

Includes sheet music samples from the song "When I Lost You"

1 score, (6p.), 32x26 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., New York


The Song In My Heart, Wm B. Delancy, Jack Stanley, The H. Kirkus Dugdale Co. Inc Jan 1913

The Song In My Heart, Wm B. Delancy, Jack Stanley, The H. Kirkus Dugdale Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: There's a little song that's singing in my heart,

First line of chorus: What's the song of joy that fills me in my heart?

Andante

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Growing Old Along with Me"

Words by Wm. B. Delancy

Music by Jack Stanley

1 score, (6p.), 34x27 cm

Published by The H. Kirkus Dugdale Co. Inc., Washington. D. C.


He'd Have To Get Under-Get Out And Get Under (To Fix Up His Automobile), Grant Clark, Edgar Leslie, Maurice Abrahams, Maurice Abrahams Music Co. Jan 1913

He'd Have To Get Under-Get Out And Get Under (To Fix Up His Automobile), Grant Clark, Edgar Leslie, Maurice Abrahams, Maurice Abrahams Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple in a field trying to fix an automobile. The man is under the car trying to fix it and the woman sitting in the car. At the bottom right of the front cover is a portrait of a man with his arms crossed and the words Hershell Hendler

First line of song: Johnny O'Connor bought an automobile, he took his sweetheart for, a ride one Sunday

First line of chorus: He'd have to get under, get out and get under to fix his little machine,

Allegretto

Bobby North's Terrific Hit!

Words by Grant Clark & Edgar …


Honeymooning On The Panama Canal, William B. Delancy, Jack Stanley, H. Kirkus Dugdale Co Jan 1913

Honeymooning On The Panama Canal, William B. Delancy, Jack Stanley, H. Kirkus Dugdale Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A sketch of a couple sitting, holding hands on land surrounded by water and palm trees.

First line of song: When Balboa sailed from Spain, far across the bounding main

First line of chorus: Where the tropic sun is glowing, where the balmy winds are blowing

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Carolene, My Black- Eyed Queen"

Moderato

Words by William B. Delancy

Music by Jack Stanley

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by H. Kirkus Dugdale Co, Washington, D.C


Land Of Beautiful Dreams, Maurice E. Marke, Charlotte Blake, Jerome H. Remick & Co Jan 1913

Land Of Beautiful Dreams, Maurice E. Marke, Charlotte Blake, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman in a white dress putting her hand on a water fountain with a mansion and trees in the background.

First line of song: There is a land I know, dear, land where I long to go, dear

First line of chorus: Land of beautiful dreams land where happiness beams.

Andantino

Refrain: Valse Lento

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "I'll Get You" and "Sunshine And Roses"

Words by Maurice E. Marke

Music by Charlotte Blake

Popular Edition

1 score, (6p.), 34x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit


Where The Red, Red, Roses Grow, Wm. Jerome, Jean Schwartz, Jerome And Schwartz Publishing Co. Jan 1913

Where The Red, Red, Roses Grow, Wm. Jerome, Jean Schwartz, Jerome And Schwartz Publishing Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Three roses on the left and right side with a house and yard in the middle. Portrait of a man and women in bottom right with the words Ted Lorraine and Hattie Burks

First line of song: Come on little girlie, wear your wedding gown, come to town,

First line of chorus: I want a little bung-a-low where the red, red, roses grow,

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "The Flower Garden Ball" and "There's One in a Million Like You"

Words by WM. Jerome

Music by Jean Schwartz

Introduced by McIntyre and Heath in a …


The Curse Of An Aching Heart, Henry Fink, Al. Piantadosi, Leo Feist Inc Jan 1913

The Curse Of An Aching Heart, Henry Fink, Al. Piantadosi, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman's side profile with a bonnet on her head with a bow on the side of it.

First line of song: You made me think you cared for me, and I believed in you

First line of chorus: You made me what I am today, I hope you're satisfied

Moderato

Words by Henry Fink

Music by Al. Piantadosi

Popular Edition

Emma Carus' Wonderful Hit. The Moral Song With A Blessing

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York


Peg O'My Heart, Alfred Bryan, Fred Fisher, Leo Feist Inc Jan 1913

Peg O'My Heart, Alfred Bryan, Fred Fisher, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a hat sitting in a chair holding a dog and box

First line of song: Oh! my heart's in a whirl, over one little girl

First line of chorus: Peg O' My heart, I love you, We'll never part

Words by Alfred Bryan

The $1000.00 Prize Song

Written around J. Hartley Manners wonderful Character "Peg" in Oliver Morosco's Production of the comedy "Peg O'My Heart" at the Cort Theatre N.Y.

Dedicated to the Star Miss Laurette Taylor

Music by Fred Fisher

Popular Edition

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Leo Feist, …


It Takes A Little Rain With The Sunshine To Make The World Go Round, Ballard Macdonald, Harry Carroll, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co Jan 1913

It Takes A Little Rain With The Sunshine To Make The World Go Round, Ballard Macdonald, Harry Carroll, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A boy talking to a sad little girl in the house, near a window, on a rainy day. There is a doll laying on the floor at the feet of the girl. In the bottom left corner of the front cover there is a small portrait of a women with the words "Kitty Gordon".

First line of song: A dear little girl and a dear little boy looked out at the drizzling rain.

First line of chorus: Cause it takes a little rain with the sunshine

Moderato

Andante

By the writers of "The Trail of The Lonesome Pine" …


Have A Heart, Jack Drislane, Harry Armstrong, M. Witmark & Sons Jan 1913

Have A Heart, Jack Drislane, Harry Armstrong, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of two men standing together looking to the right direction. The words Billy Clark are written on one man and Harry Armstrong on the other. The photo is surrounded by a background of red hearts.

First line of song: She was just a bashful maiden, he was just a bashful beau;

First line of chorus: Have a heart! Have a heart! Can't you try your best to pity me,

Moderately

Words by Jack Drislane writer of "Arrah-wanna", "Keep A Little Cosey Corner," etc.

Music by Harry Armstrong composer of "Sweet Adeline", "Driving Home the Cows from …


Daddy, Come Home, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. Jan 1913

Daddy, Come Home, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a small boy standing on a chair talking into an old school phone. There is a man listening on the other end in the letter D.

First line of song: Hello! Central, dear, Central, listen here

First line of chorus: Daddy, come home! Close the factory and hurry up home!

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Take Me Back"

All'o mod'to

Violet Mac Millan

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co, New York


When Dreams Come True, Philip Bartholomae, Silvio Hein, Roy Webb, T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter Jan 1913

When Dreams Come True, Philip Bartholomae, Silvio Hein, Roy Webb, T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of four women hovering over one man

First line of song: Love and Hope are the weavers of dreams

First line of chorus: There in that fair land, that rare land, that land of milk and honey

Includes sheet music sample from the song "The Maurice Tango"

Tempo di Valse lente

Words by Philip Bartholomae

Music by Silvio Hein & Roy Webb

Philip Bartholomae presents his musical comedy of youth When Dreams Come True with Joseph Santley

Andantino e tranquillo (during dialogue)

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, …


On A Ragtime Hooneymoon, William Jerome, Jean Schwartz, George V. Hobart, Ned Wayburn, Jerome & Schwartz Publishing Co. Jan 1913

On A Ragtime Hooneymoon, William Jerome, Jean Schwartz, George V. Hobart, Ned Wayburn, Jerome & Schwartz Publishing Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a circle with a man sitting at a desk and another man leaning on top of it, with a tree that has hams hanging from it in the background.

First line of song: Hurry up, hurry up, don't you hear that trainman calling for you

First line of chorus: On a ragtime honeymoon, get a bride, get a bride, get a bride

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Where The Red, Red Roses Grow"

Allegro moderato

Lyrics by William Jerome

Music by Jean Schwartz

John Cort Presents Mc.Intrye and Heath in A Revival Of …


I'Ve Got The Finest Man, Henry S. Creamer, James Reese Europe, Waterson, Berlin, & Synder Co Jan 1912

I'Ve Got The Finest Man, Henry S. Creamer, James Reese Europe, Waterson, Berlin, & Synder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Women wearing a hat in a circular frame with the name "Primrose Semon"

First line of song: Happy, happy, happy little bird am I, I want to fly, here's the reason why

First line of chorus: I've got the finest man, Oh, lawd! I've got the kindest man

Include sheet music sample from the song "June Honeymoon"

Moderato

Words by Henry S. Creamer

Music by James Reese Europe

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New York


When The Twilight Comes To Kiss The Rose "Good-Night", Robert F. Roden, Henry W. Petrie, F. B. Haviland Pub. Co. Inc Jan 1912

When The Twilight Comes To Kiss The Rose "Good-Night", Robert F. Roden, Henry W. Petrie, F. B. Haviland Pub. Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman in a white dress holding a rose flower in front of a window.

First line of song: Near a rose bush down in Dixie I am dreaming

First line of chorus: When the twilight comes to kiss the rose "Good Night!"

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Good bye, Little Girl Of My Dreams"

Moderato

Words by Robert F. Roden writer of "There's A Dixie Girl Who's Longing For A Yankee Doodle Boy"

Music by Henry W. Petrie composer of "As Deep As The Deep Blue Sea"

Includes Male Quartette chorus

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 …


Come Along Honey, Will M. Hough, Frederick Donaghey, Ben M. Jerome, R. H. Burnside, Harry Askin, Joe M. Harris Jan 1912

Come Along Honey, Will M. Hough, Frederick Donaghey, Ben M. Jerome, R. H. Burnside, Harry Askin, Joe M. Harris

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: In June time, in moon time the world goes 'round to a tune time with fond hearts beating fond lips are meeting, every night.

First line of chorus: Come along, honey, I'm waiting come along out in the bright moon-light,

Valse Modto

The La Salle Opera-House Co. Inc. Puts Forth the Musical Comedy The Girl at the Gate

Play and Lyrics by Will M. Hough and Frederick Donaghey

Music by Ben M. Jerome

Staged by R. H. Burnside

Harry Askin * Managing Director

1 score, (8p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Joe …