Show WHERE COME FROM v i some mv were composed by accident others begged borrowed or stolen W rc arson a weekly r 1 l s 3 tj how did all the best song come lo 10 of course that there u wo know number of song corn y are an enormous ta posers who are every year turning which out valuable examples more or less s 1 lat for a season or so but there anro everybody feels aro certain songs which akl hero until tho rest of time how did 1 I they strike their composers kili 3 take for instance the old folks at ia home it is the result of the most tavi i W al accident in the career of its composer stephen foster driving one day through coach Ms party kentucky on a stage j bad stopped at a wayside inn loster W waa watching tho natives change the i horses which they did in a lazy way i i chattering all tho time to each other in their native dialect one of them chanced to say 1 I wish I 1 was back with the old folks at home where was that A asked the p way down upon the suvannee Su vannce river was tha prompt reply foster who had iho keenest of ears for like a or beautiful phrase instantly caught the re mark it suggested to him the theme of a directly ho reached homo he wrote bolh words and music which ibave ince become so well known sally in our alley appeared as the result of a sheilar chance incident in the lifo of henry carey he was a success fill author poet and dramatist but tho only abiding thing he ever did was the composition bf this song ho wag wandering one day in tho outskirts of london and noticed a young costermonger walking with hi sweet hetric the couple were evidently mak ing the best of a holiday had taken a boac ride trips on the round 1 a lunch of bacon and onions cakes and ale and other luxuries carey was so pleased with the simple charm of the courtship that ho took it into liis head to follow the couple wherever they went le had spent many hours at the t pursuit he went home the result of his adventure was the song sally in our alley the girl I 1 left behind only be came the great parting tuno of the brit ish army because of the amorous nature of an irish band master it was his little way to form a new love affair at every town he visited on it occurred to him to give nice little compliment to one of his numerous sweethearts by playing an arih meloda namely the girl I 1 left behind me at the next town he repeated the pro beas and in lime it became a matter of bonmon law that the band should play iho tune on leaving every town other r bands hearing of the custom imitated it until it spread all over the country finally it grew to be looked upon as dis respectful if a detachment omitted to play it os a parting compliment to the ladies so to this day it still holds its place as the british army parting song home sweet home like many an national melody does not belong to ibe country which claims it at all britain likes to think of it as own but it is the work of an american john howard payne the famous melody is supposed to have ben a lovesick outpouring of its composer and to have been dedicated to a young lady of whom ho was enamored harden but she did not return ats affection as she was not of romantic disposition when she didd it was given out that i the MS of home sweet home waa frith her covered with loving expressions pres not for the public car but the story may not be entirely true what Is known about it though is that it is the work of a man to whom delights of homo were unknown all his life lie wandered over tho earth homeless baid died at tunis like many another fine inspiration the U lost chord came io its author when aj attending the deathbed of a friend it P was under these circumstances that bull 11 livan conceived the melody which wag to i I 1 bring him a fortune of over ten thou 1 1 I and pounds i 1 the boar in 0 the creen enjoyed iss previous existence before it ever be ft carao adeoda ted with irish grievances for if you it waa a scottish j long before irishmen sang it to those 1 having been appropriated by one i bamps oswald a scotsman and pub I 1 ajit fahed by him as scottish on of hi it own in 1756 it only bel 1 fame the 0 the green fo i lale fla 1850 f f hut when WB come to songs that have been stolen their name is legion who for instance would dare to suggest that robin adair was anything eho but A though the words of the song were by burns robin himself was an irish doctor in love with lady caroline i keppel whose parents took her away i from robin causing her to fade away J the melody is irish not scotch at P ancl fc alag y ean included in a 1 raj jjr sj french opera la dame blanche anderl fl jl ca ia a notorious bong not one of i her three national melodies can be called her own where yankee noodle came i from is a matter of doubt but this thing is certain it ia no more yankee than it Is chinese it haa in the first instance been i claimed aa hungarian by louii kossuth A who on hearing t for th firt time cb j once recognized it n one of ha coun A arys ivanco tunes be as it may it j J wa first brought out by a british sur 4 goon a german name Shuck burgi r S who on seeing como england troops i into albany wi t ft this tune i in a joke anil the yankees tow j ip ting it a their very own whenever they i feel particularly f their great one my country ti of tace 1 is than our own aft f y anthem which ba tt taid abw J doea duty for that af germany hail columbia wag if not made in germany 1 the ork of a german musician while kirio a concert in honor of washington i new york he composed a commonplace air called the march which was played threadbare later on hopkinson took hold of it nod mt M t it to the word hail columbia it lias remained ever since the star spangled banner americas greatest song started in business as an english drinking song date 1765 later it became associated with the free masons until it crossed the atlantic and settled down ia boston as adams and liberty in 1812 francis scott kay thought of the words star spangled banner while watching alie british bombard a fort and the words soon became the sole possessor ot blat particular tune |