Lyr Add: Do They Think of Me at Home

Subject: Lyr Add: DO THEY THINK OF ME AT HOME
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 02:14 PM

DO THEY THINK OF ME AT HOME
Chas. W. Glover

Do they think of me at home
Do they ever think of me?
I who shared their every grief
I who mingled in their glee?
Have their hearts grown cold and strange
To the ones now doomed to roam
I would give the world to know
Do they think of me at home
I would give the world to know
Do they think of me at home

Do they think of me at eve
Of the songs I used to sing
Is the harp I struck untouched
Does a stranger wake the string
Will no kind forgiving word
Come across the ragin foam
Shall I never cease to sigh
Do they think of me at home
Shall I never cease to sigh
Do they think of me at home

Do they think of how I loved
In my happy early days
Do they think of him who came
But could never win their praise
I am happy by his side
And from mine he'll never roam
But my heart will sadly ask
Do they think of me at home
My heart will sadly ask
Do they think of me at home

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DO THEY THINK OF ME AT HOME
From: Amos
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 03:08 PM

Wow. The very best of a gilded age, sounds like.

Thanks!


A

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DO THEY THINK OF ME AT HOME
From: masato sakurai
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 05:04 AM

16 items at American Memory. One of them is:

Do they think of me at home by C.W. Glover (Cleveland, Ohio, S. Brainard, [186-?])

From Levy:

Title: Do They Think of Me at Home. Ballad.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by J.E. Carpenter. Music by C.W. Glover.
C. W. Glover Publication: Cincinnati: A.C. Peters & Bro., 92 West Fourth St., opp. Post Office, Successors to W.C. Peters & Sons, n.d..
Form of Composition: strophic
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Do they think of me at home, do they ever think of me?
Plate Number: 3373.4
Subject: Homesickness
Subject: Travel
Subject: Love
Subject: Families
Subject: Distress
Call No.: Box: 174 Item: 084

From California Sheet Music Project:

Do they think of me at home? / words by J. E. Carpenter ; music by C. Glover.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DO THEY THINK OF ME AT HOME
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 01:36 AM

Reminds me of "Do They Miss Me At Home" - popular during the Civil War.
It's recorded on the "More Songs" Soundtrack album from the movie "Gettysburg".

"Do they miss me at home; Do they miss me?
"Twould be an assurance most dear;
to know that some Loved One is sighing,
and saying 'I wish he were here'...

Too few of the group at the fire-side
are thinking of me as I roam;
Oh yes; 'twould be joy beyond measure
to know that they miss me at ho-ome;
to know that they miss me at home."

(Or something like that - going from memory here)

If anyone is interested and it's not already on the DT (I can't imagine that it would not be in Levy) let me know & I can post the lyrics.

It's one of my favorite Reenacting pieces, and goes well with the gut-strung parlor guitar, an instrument which implies "roaming", I think, a bit more than a piano-forte.
The lyrics veritably ooze early Victorian sentiment and imagery;
"...When the candles are lit in the Parlor;
and the stars in the calm auzure sky...".