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Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon

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Title
Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon - Lyrics
Composer
Norton, George A.  
Lyricist
Norton, George A.  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Lyrics
  • Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover who is Fur, Fur Away) Verse: Susie Simpkins in the village papers read about the soldiers manly capers, and made up her mind, that a soldier’s bonnie bride she’d be
  • Volunteers were called a little later, Big Si Hubbard stopped a hoeing ‘taters, fell right into line, And mustered with a company. She cried and kissed him when he marched away, and she vowed to keep in her mind each day. Refrain: ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it in the winter and the summer so they say If you ask her “Why the decoration?” She’ll say “It’s fur my lover who is fur, fur away. Fur away fur away, If she is milkin’ cows or mowin’ hay
  • ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away. Verse: Months rolled by and patiently she waited, read the war news, greatly agitated, no word from her boy, ‘till a letter from his captain said “Your beau Silas, he went out a gunnin’,” soon he had the enemy a
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Record Series 12/9/96
  • Series 2, Box 19, Folder 5
Local Identifier
2014_12996_615
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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Title
Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon
Composer
Norton, George A.  
Lyricist
Norton, George A.  
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.  
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication
1917  
Date of Copyright
1917-10-29
Lyrics
  • ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away. Verse: Months rolled by and patiently she waited, read the war news, greatly agitated, no word from her boy, ‘till a letter from his captain said “Your beau Silas, he went out a gunnin’,” soon he had the enemy a
  • Volunteers were called a little later, Big Si Hubbard stopped a hoeing ‘taters, fell right into line, And mustered with a company. She cried and kissed him when he marched away, and she vowed to keep in her mind each day. Refrain: ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it in the winter and the summer so they say If you ask her “Why the decoration?” She’ll say “It’s fur my lover who is fur, fur away. Fur away fur away, If she is milkin’ cows or mowin’ hay
  • Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover who is Fur, Fur Away) Verse: Susie Simpkins in the village papers read about the soldiers manly capers, and made up her mind, that a soldier’s bonnie bride she’d be
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 19, Folder 5
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_615
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
Collection
James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
TitleRound Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon
ComposerNorton, George A.  
LyricistNorton, George A.  
PublisherLeo Feist Inc.  
Place of PublicationNew York (N.Y.)  
Year of Publication1917  
Date of Copyright1917-10-29
Lyrics
  • ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it fur her lover who is fur, fur away. Verse: Months rolled by and patiently she waited, read the war news, greatly agitated, no word from her boy, ‘till a letter from his captain said “Your beau Silas, he went out a gunnin’,” soon he had the enemy a
  • Volunteers were called a little later, Big Si Hubbard stopped a hoeing ‘taters, fell right into line, And mustered with a company. She cried and kissed him when he marched away, and she vowed to keep in her mind each day. Refrain: ‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, she wears it in the winter and the summer so they say If you ask her “Why the decoration?” She’ll say “It’s fur my lover who is fur, fur away. Fur away fur away, If she is milkin’ cows or mowin’ hay
  • Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover who is Fur, Fur Away) Verse: Susie Simpkins in the village papers read about the soldiers manly capers, and made up her mind, that a soldier’s bonnie bride she’d be
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Original Location
  • Series 2, Box 19, Folder 5
  • Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier2014_12996_615
Collection TitleJames Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
CollectionJames Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection

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