Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.23170 Composed by John H. Hewitt. Mothers & children, Nostalgia, Civil war--Confederate. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.23170). Rock Me To Sleep, Mother. Words by Florence Percy. Music by John H. Hewitt. Published 1861 by Julian A. Selby in Columbia, S.C. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Mothers & children, Nostalgia, Civil war--Confederate. First line reads Backward, still backward, oh, time in your flight, make me a child again, just for a night.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
