Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.23853
Composed by E. Clinton Keithley. Cartoons, Humorous pictures, Seamen, Prisoners, Women, Cleaning, Punishment & torture, Courtship, World War I. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.23853).
They Put Our Little Percy in the Brig. The Great Comic Gob Song. Lyric by Wm. J. Redford, U.S.N. Music by E. Clinton Keithley. Published 1919 by Frank K. Root & Co., McKinely Music Co. Owners in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Cartoons, Humorous pictures, Seamen, Prisoners, Women, Cleaning, Punishment & torture, Courtship, World War I. First line reads Percy was a salty seagoin' sailor, altho' he never sailed upon the sea..
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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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