Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

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	310	OUR FAMILIAR SONGS.
	He came to the United States, and opened a school in Fredericksburgh, Virginia, and afterwards took orders in the Episcopal Church. Domestic and other trOURles brought him to his grave in 1798. This song has had more true lovers than almost any other. Washington Irving, in his old age, loved to recall his sister's singing of the ballad. " How constantly it made me weep," he used to say, "and yet how constantly I begged of her to sing it."'