Dreaming of Home and Mother

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Composer: John P. Ordway
Source: American English World Zoumaduren

Dreaming of home, dear old home
Home of my childhood and mother
Oft when I wake ‘tis sweet to find
I’ve been dreaming of home and mother

Home, dear home, childhood’s happy home
When I played with sister and with brother
‘Twas the sweetest joy when we did roam
Over hill and through dale with mother

Dreaming of home, dear old home,
Home of my childhood and mother
Oft when I wake ’tis sweet to find
I’ve been dreaming of home and mother

Sleep, balmy sleep, close mine eyes,
Keep me still thinking of mother
Hark! ’Tis her voice I seem to hear
Yes, I’m dreaming of home and mother

Angels come soothing me to rest
I can feel their presence as none other
For they sweetly say I shall be blest
With bright visions of home and mother

Childhood has come, come again,
Sleeping I see my dear mother
See her loved form beside me kneel
While I’m dreaming of home and mother

Mother dear, whisper to me now
Tell me of my sister and my brother
Now I feel thy hand upon my brow
Yes, I’ dreaming of home and mother


 

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美丽的诗与画。。。
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John P. Ordway
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John Pond Ordway (born Salem, Massachusetts, 1824, died April 1880, Boston, Massachusetts, was a doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician.

Graduating from Harvard Medical College in 1859, Ordway was one of the first surgeons to volunteer at the start of the Civil War, serving in the 6th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the Union surgeons sent to tend to the wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Ordway was an owner of a music store in Boston, a music publisher, and a composer. His song Twinkling Stars are Laughing, Love (1855) was recorded by the Hayden Quartet as late as 1902 and 1904. Dreaming of Home and Mother (1851) was a popular sentimental song of the Civil War era, and continues to be played; it is popular in China and Japan in translated versions. Around 1845 he organized Ordway's Aeolians, a blackface minstrel troupe which performed at Ordway Hall in Boston and also nationally to promote Ordway's publishing business. Future bandleader/composer Patrick Gilmore worked in Ordway's store and also appeared with the Aeolians. A number of 19th century songs were written for the Aeolians and/or dedicated to Ordway, including Jingle Bells.

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