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Cradle's empty baby's gone
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| Identifier | mdbv142_001 |
| Title | Cradle's empty baby's gone |
| Transcript | CRADLE'S
EMPTY
BABY'S GONE.
As Sung at Ford's, by Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West's Minstrels
Words and Music by Harry Kennedy.
Author of "A Flower from Mother's Grave"
Little empty cradle, treasured now [with care]
Though thy precious burden it has fled.
How we miss the locks of curly golden hair,
Peeping from thy tiny snow-white bed,
When the dimpled cheeks and little laughing eyes
From the rumpled pillow shone,
Then I gazed with gladness, now I look and sigh;
Empty is the cradle, Baby's gone.
Chorus.
Baby left her cradle for the golden shore,
O'er the silv'ry waters she has flown,
Gone to join the angels peaceful evermore;
Empty is the cradle Baby's gone.
Near a shady valley stands a grassy mound,
Underneath my little darling sleeps.
Blossoms sweet, and roses cluster all around;
Over-head the willow silent weeps
There I laid my loved one in the long ago,
And my heart does sadly moan,
Though she's with the angels, still I fain would weep?
Empty is the cradle, Baby's gone. - Cho.
Wm. J. Schmidt, 360 Mulberry Street, Baltimore.
Publisher of American, English, Irish, Dutch, Negro, Sailor, Soldier,
Comic, Humorous, College, Sentimental, Social and
Religious Choice Selected Songs.
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| Publisher (Original) | William J. Schmidt
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| Subject | Broadsides
Children and death
Ford's Theatre (Baltimore, Md.)
Kennedy, Harry
Minstrels
Songs
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| Description | Document containing the broadside entitled "Cradle's Empty Baby's Gone, " a song by Harry Kennedy, the ventriloquist (ca. 1854-1894) (full name believed to be William Henry Kennedy), as sung at Ford's Theatre (originally Ford's Grand Opera House) in Baltimore, Maryland by Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West's Minstrels. In this broadside the speaker laments the loss of his or her golden-haired baby girl who is now buried on a hillside under a willow tree. The title and all of the verses are displayed within a decorative border. Above the border to the left, stamped in maroon ink, are the words "Enoch Pratt Free Library" and, under them, "MARYLAND DEPT." Attached below the border in the left-hand corner is a white tag with the words "Maryland Department Broadside Verses" printed in black. |
| Publisher (Electronic Version) | Enoch Pratt Free Library
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| Holding Institution | Enoch Pratt Free Library
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| Date Original | ca. 1880-1900 |
| Date Digital | 2004-01-23 |
| Type | Text
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| Format | Digital reproduction of 1-page document, 25 x 16 cm. |
| Source | Maryland Department, Broadside Verses
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| Relation | Is Part Of the Maryland Department Broadside Verses Collection
Is Part Of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program
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| Coverage | 1871-1880
1881-1890
1891-1900
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