Name/Title
MY LONG ISLAND HOMEEntry/Object ID
L.2008.143Description
Sheet music comprised of two bound paper sheets; green title page; in the center is a green and yellow lithograph image of a windmill next to a house with the caption: "HOME, SWEET HOME";across the bottom is a green and yellow border of sailboats, houses, and a lighthouse; text above image: "(SONG) / My LONG ISLAND / HOME / Waltz / BY / Ed. Livingston Greenwood / Dedicated to the memory of / John Howard Payne / the author of 'Home, Sweet, Home' "; text below image: " 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; /
Bleak and forlorn, standing hungry and penniless under the gaslight, in the snow / and sleet, in a foreign land, thousands of miles from home, this man, whose soul had / been poured out in the deathless beauty of that 'Song of Songs,' heard, as his heart was / breaking for the little cottage of his boyhood, the orchestra's sweet strains, and, above / the musical instruments, the ringing sweet voice of the tenor's 'Be it ever so humble, / there's no place like home.' /
Down his cheeks, furrowed with hunger and suffering, the tears poured, unrestrained, / as they have poured down the cheeks of millions of other homesick souls, whose heart- / strings are ever torn by the haunting memories of 'Home, Sweet Home.' when they, too, / have known the poignant grief that absence from home and dear ones ever brings to / gentle hearts. /
The 'Home, Sweet Home of John Howard Payne, and where he spent his early / childhood days, is at Easthampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, on the Montauk Divi- / sion of the Long Island Railroad, and this town is, incidentally, one of the most inter- / esting and oldest in the United States. / PRICE 35c / PUBLISHED BY / "MADE IN U.S.A." "GREENWOOD PUBLISHING CO." / FREEPORT, LONG ISLAND, N.Y."; second page has five staff lines of music and lyrics with text above and below; third page has five staff lines of music and lyrics, fourth page has small advertisements for a number of businesses in Smithtown, L.I., N.Y.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Ed. Livingston GreenwoodAttribution
ComposerManufacturer
Greenwood Publishing CompanyDate made
1928Other Names and Numbers
Other Number
Racette list #Dimensions
Dimension Description
OverallHeight
12-1/2 inWidth
9-1/2 inDimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.8 x 24.1 cm)Condition
Notes
Remarks: Slight tears on edges.General Notes
Note Type
StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 24ENote Type
DepartmentNote
Curatorial