Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.6837
Composed by Hampton Durand. Portraits, Children playing soldier, Aged persons, Time, Fathers & children. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.6837).
I'd Like to be a Soldier Boy in Blue. Another Song Hit for the Children. Story by Harry L. Newton. Music by Hampton Durand. Published 1909 by Will Rossiter, the Chicago Publisher, 152 Lake St. in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Children playing soldier, Aged persons, Time, Fathers & children. First line reads A little boy of eight, stood at the garden gate, while the boys in blue marched past..
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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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