Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.4822
Composed by George A. Swain. Poor persons, Fighting, Deception, Money. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4822).
It's Cheaper to Move Than Pay Rent. Song & Dance. Words and Music by George A. Swain. Published 1886 by W.F. Shaw Co.] in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus (with dance interlude) with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Poor persons, Fighting, Deception, Money. First line reads My name it is Patrick McGuffin, I'm a Turk from the Isle of Japan..
About The Lester S. Levy Collection
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.
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