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Show .:z.x-:-xxsx:s:ex Song Composed Under Stress of Loneliness ' Some persons, assert that John Howard How-ard Payne wrote his wonder song. "Home Sweet Home." while In a debtors' debt-ors' prison. Others say he wrote It nt a time when r.e was penniless and homeless, srrnndefj I" London. 'Payne, however, leaves be.'iind him the statement state-ment that he wa.l a fairly successful plavwrUkt, with a .good supply of moiiev nnd excellent prospects ahead when he wrote the song. He did admit ad-mit that lie was somewhat depressed at the time he penned the words, but he attributes his depression to a dull October day, merry crowds passing his window as ho sat and watched tnim. To was lonesome. Poing a wanderer wander-er he hnd straved f".r from home, but et' times lie had memories of the days he sio:t In happy childhood with a mothar he adored in a humble collars ilt Fa.'.thampton, L. I- The tune he idur-lod freni a song he had hoard a peasant girl tnjr.g to herself in the fields of Italy while he was visiting that country. After writing the words, lie Jott'-d down a semblance of the tune he had heard in Italy and sent the suggestion to the omposer, Harry F.. Bishop, who produced the air that so admirnldy fits the words. Kansas City Star. |