Slide set: Daddy (song: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1896)

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Slide 1**

Take my head on your shoulder, daddy, turn your face to the west

Slide 2**

The day has been long without you, daddy, you have been such a while away

Slide 3**

But I've got you, and you've got me. So everything seems right

Slide 4**

Why do your big tears fall, daddy? Mother's not far away

Slide 5**

(Effect) I often seem to hear her voice falling across my play

Slide 6**

And it sometimes makes me cry, daddy, to think it's none of it true

Slide 3 (rpt)**

Slide 7**

I'm sometimes afraid to think, daddy, when I am big like you

Slide 8**

If, when we get up to Heaven, and mother was waiting there

Slide 3 (rpt)**

Slide 9**

Daddy, good night, dear daddy, good night

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of City Sale and Exchange, dates unknown

in stock of WMSSU, dates unknown

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1896-1914 (item ref. 929)

in stock of North of England Temperance League, 1906 (item ref. 453)

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

song

Date of first manufacture

1896

Reading or song

Mary Mark Lemon and A.H. Behrend, Daddy (London: Boosey & Co., 1883)

Related slide sets

see generic title Daddy (generic set title – 5 different versions are known)

reissued as Daddy: new series (song: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1906)

Notes

The alternative versions of several of the slides appear to have been rephotographed; since their labelling style does not match Bamforth's conventional style they may be contemporary 'pirate' copies.

Collections

15 slides known to exist in private collection

11 slides in The Hecht Collection: Screen Archive South East (University of Brighton)

Subject keyword

creative arts – music – songs

Lucerna ID 3001199

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 20 March 2024

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Slide set: Daddy (song: Bamforth & Co., 9 slides, 1896)