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Show Ij ' Dear Sir: ( I beg most respectfully to state I have sent to m you a song for you to publish in your evening pa- pers the music of the song goes on the air of the I , flying trapeze put Catherine Curran playing the jf piano and Robert Emmett playing on the harp let I'ffj 1 the portrait of Robert be a good one and also of B : II Catherine the air will take a pretty Waltz put the Hr I , music on one side and the song on the other with Bj I J Robert and Catherine at the head of each I should I 5 I like to have your opinion. I now conclude ear- f 1. nestly hoping for a continuance of good health to lj each and all your family and believe me still and i ffl eVer to remain your obedient Edward Nugent ' 1 , Sugar Station Salt Lake City, Utah This is a new 8 song and it will have great demand, there are Irish f i patriotism around-you in the valley. Yours truly I E. D. N. T Dublin Ireland. , I For Loving: a Girl that can Never be Mine. E I'm smitten by cupit I'm all in a flame k J' I dote on a girl I dont know her name 3 I i The daughter of some wealthy merchant in town ; 'I J The pride of the city 111 wager a crown i j 1 1 But then only think on a fellow like me j j j Presuming to love such a lady as she Bj R Ij I should be flogged with a yard of whip twine B u f ' For loving a girl that can never be mine Hi i ft' CHORUS. B H II Hp jU IJ With rosey complection and auburn hair Bj I l i With features so lovely and figure so fair 1 3 1 Its all in a lump she is almost devine i IS And ain't it too bad she can never be mine ' I ; J ijjj , It was out promenading one noon on the Strand BB 8 Sji I met this proud beauty so gay and so grand Ij m i The moment her beautiful form I looked on I thought that my heart and my senses was gon ! I loved her because she was lovely and fair lj ft ' Nt thinking her beauty to me was a snare il fl Im afraid 111 go of in a rappit decline i For loving a girl that can never be mine 1 CHORUS jj V But if I could only look stylish and grand i ,5 ; Like some of those swells she meets out on the i1 strand mx f t High flowing in speach and all that kind of thing B : E Why then I might venture to offer the ring B l 3 M , But Im a long way from the top of the tree B ' ! 1 ' She is rather high up in the world for me B 'j J But I should be drowned in the deep river Tyne B j! ! For loving a girl that can never be mine. H 'j I lij 1 CHORUS B j jl But if I only had ten thousand a year B i! 'i A beautiful mansion the city quite near aHli m And this pretty girl for my own loving wife II J ' Oh then I would lead a most glorious life I I I'd make up for lost time I'd live very fast jj J lj H I'd enjoy all the pleasures of life to the last jp J'Jj But I should be drowned in a barrel of vine h !fii For loving a girl that can never be mine. il iff CHORUS. H IP Jlf K is ereat Edward, but it is the belief of the B J 'Iff musical editor that "the air of the flying trapeze" H S tff is a 1Ittle to wk for it We also resret being iB S m unable to arrange a sitting with either Robert or H j X) Catherine, so publish it without illustrations, I ' 'Il Catherine being a little superstitious about Rob- B S I! erts liarn thinking that he would string her. flj m Ml We are also unable to secure the music but HIP If risk PublishinS it on the ground and in the hope Wrnl HI that it will be barred soon. K 1 1 |