Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.11636 Composed by Walter A. Phillips. Flowers, Courtship, Love, Firefighters, Floods, Rescues, Fathers & children. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.11636). Only a Fireman's Girl. Descriptive Song & Chorus. Words by Morris Abell. Music by Walter A. Phillips. Published 1897 by Howley, Haviland & Co., 4 East 20th Street in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Flowers, Courtship, Love, Firefighters, Floods, Rescues, Fathers & children. First line reads The headlight shone bright thro' the darkness, as the train thunders on o'er the rail.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.