Slide set: You left me for the limelight (song: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1912)

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In a hall of dazzling splendour stood a singer young and fair

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Her old dad sat unnoticed -- did not share his daughter's pride

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Tho' you are the people's idol, empty is your fame

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You left me for the limelight, left me without a sigh

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I carried you so proudly, kissing your baby brow

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To the old man's mind so simple, all the glitter and the glare

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She sang a Northern ballad he had taught her as a child

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It is I who need forgiveness, I who have been wrong

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Catalogue entry

1912

Bamforth's artistic life model lantern slides: supplementary list (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1912), 534

Lucerna ID 3000284

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 23 November 2016

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Slide set: You left me for the limelight (song: Bamforth & Co., 16 slides, 1912)