The Southern
Musical Boquet
of
Favorite Songs and Ballads
No. 1

1. Let me Kiss him for his Mother. Ordway
2. Rock me to sleep, Mother . . . ---
3. We Conquer or Die . . . Pierpont
4. Yellow Rose of Texas . . . J. K.
5. Brightest Eyes . . . Stigelli
6. Ah! I have sighed to rest . . . Verdi

7. Castles in the Air ... Scotch
8. I see her still in my Dreams . . . Foster
9. Her bright smile haunts me still ... Wrighton
10. Lorena . . . Webster
11. Juanita . . . Hon. Mrs. Norton
12. Parthenia to Ingomar . . . Foster

[No. 1]
"Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother" [circa 1864]
Poetry and Music by JOHN P. ORDWAY.

MACON, GA.,
Published by JOHN C. SCHREINER & SON, Cotton Avenue.
Savanna; SCHREINER & OXENIUS.
Atlanta; RICHARDS & CO.
Athens, Wm. N. WHITE.
Augusta; BLACKMAR & BRO.; GEO. OATES.; CHAS. CATLIN.
Mobile, Ala; JOSEPH BOCK. J. W. SNOW.
Huntsville, Ala. LOGEMANN & HIOLLENBERG.
Selma, Ala.; J. W. BLANDIN.
Wilmington, N. C., T. S. WHITAKER.
JAMES F. WEEKS, PAINTER. COTTON AVENUE, MACON, GA.
[Library of Congress
MUSIC DIV.
Class. M 1642
  .S [Case]
Acc. No. 134065]
[Source: covilwardigital.com]

1. Let me kiss him for his Mother,
  Let me kiss his dear youthful brow;
I will love him for his Mother,
  And seek her blessing now;
Kind friends have soothed his pillow,
  Have watched his ev’ry care,
Beneath the weeping willow,
  O, lay him gently there.

CHORUS 1-3.
Sleep, dearest, sleep,
  I love you as a brother;
Kind friends around you weep,
  I’ve kissed you for your Mother.

2. Let me kiss him for his Mother,
  What though left a lone stranger here;
She has loved him as none otheer,
  I feel her belssing near.
Though cold that form lies sleeping,
  Seeet angels watch around;
Dear friends are near thee, weeping,
  O, lay him gently down.

3. Let me kiss him for his Mother,
  Or perchance a fond sister dear;
If a father or a brother,
  I know their belssing’s here.
Then kiss him for his Mother,
  ’Twill soothe here afteryear
Farewell, dear stranger, brother,
  Our requiem, our tears.