SKU: LV.5128

The World is Coming to an End. Topical Song. Written by Frank Dumont. Music by Samuel Hosfeld. Published 1888 by Wm. H. Boner & Co., 1102 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Food, Practical jokes, Cosmetics & soap, Manners & customs, Money. First line reads When you hear that somebody's robbed a plumber the world is coming to an end..

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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