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Slide set: The old folks at home (song: Bamforth & Co., 12 slides, 1903)

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Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

Introduction, with Title

Slide 2**

Way down de Swanee ribber, far, far away

Slide 3**

Longing for the old folks at home

Slide 4

All de world am sad and dreary, eb'rywhere I roam

Slide 5**

Words of Chorus

Slide 6**

When I was young, many happy days I squandered

Slide 7**

When I was playing wid my brudder, happy was I

Slide 8**

Oh! take me to my kind old mudder, dere let me die

Slide 9**

One little hut among de bushes, one dat I love

Slide 10**

When will I see the bees a-humming all round de comb

Slide 11**

When will I hear the banjo trumming, down in my good old home

Slide 12

How my heart grows weary, far from de old folks at home

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Bamforth & Co., England

Main type of image

life model

Main usage of set

song

Date of first manufacture

1903

Reading or song

Stephen Foster, ‘The old folks at home’ in several compilations

Related slide set

see generic title The old folks at home (generic set title – 3 different versions are known)

Collections

9 slides known to exist in private collection

12 slides known to exist in private collection

Subject keyword

creative arts – music – songs

Lucerna ID 3002006

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 23 November 2016

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