Record ID:
248563
Creator:
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Title:
The little ballad girl / words and music by Stephen C. Foster.
Published:
New York (481 Broadway, New York) : Horace Waters ; Boston (277 Washington St., Boston) : O. Ditson & Co., [1864 or later], c1860.
Notes:
First sheet-music edition.
For voice and piano.
Words of stanza 3 printed as text on p. 5.
First line of text: Ho! little girl so dressed with care!
First line of refrain: 'Tis my father's song, and he can't live long.
First published in the magazine Clark's School Visitor in 1860, the date that appears on the t.p. See Fuld, First Editions of Stephen C. Foster, p. 15.
Advertisement on back cover for "Some of the last songs of the late Stephen C. Foster, who died January 13th, 1864."
Title set within an ornamental frame / Warren, Music Stereotyper.
Associated names:
Warren, C. W.
Waters, Horace, 1812-1893, publisher.
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