[No 47.
Title deposited March 2, 1865
Work deposited March 2, 1865]
"Oh, send my Old man home again" [2 Mar 1865]

Oh, send him home to me I pray!
  I"ll check the falling tear;
All dark and dreary seems the world
  Without my old man here.

Words by
Hattie Belle
Music composed by
Herman Th. Knake.
Author of Maple by the Stream, 
Thy Mother will rock thee to sleep &c.

Pittsburgh, PA: Wamelink & Barr, No. 2 St. Clair Street
Phiad.: Lee & Walker.
N. York: W. A. Pond & Co.
N. York: Wm. Hall & Son.
Cleveland: S. Brainard & Co.
Chicago: Root & Cady.
Cinn.: A. C. Peters.
[29687]
[M 1640
  .K]
[COPYRIGHT
6 Jan 1866
LIBRARY]
[Source: 1865-200001509@LoC/IHAS-CWM]

1. Oh send my old man back again, 
  My home is lonely now;
I  miss his dear olde freckled face,
  His smooth and shining brow
I long to hear his heavy tread;
  Oh dear! when shall I see
His noble form walk in the door,
  With a patch upon his knee?

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Oh send him home to me.
  I pray; I’ll check the falling tear;
All dark and dreary seems the world
  Without my old man here.

2. I miss his dear and hearty kiss 
  When he comes from the shop;
With his old hat back of his head,
  With a button on the top;
And evening when we tried to sing,
  So loudly he would shout:
The dear man could not sing a note
  He always put me out.

3. He’s gone and joined the army now 
  To loose his precious life;
I wonder if he ever thinks
  Of me his lonely wife?
My heart with anguish soon would burst
  If my old man was slain:
Oh! drive such cruel thoughts away
  And send him home again.