There's a Vacant Chair in Every Home Tonight
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Title | There's a Vacant Chair in Every Home Tonight |
Composer | Breuer, Ernest |
Lyricist | Bryan, Alfred |
Publisher | Meyer Cohen Music Pub. Co. |
Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.) |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-11-12 |
Lyrics | There’s A Vacant Chair in Every Tonight Verse: In ev’ry mansion ev’ry cottage all throughout the land, There’s a mother heart that’s feeling blue. Her darling boy is missing he was gone with sword in hand, To make our country safe for me and you. In ev’ry mother’s eye there is a tear. And on her lips a prayer could you but hear. Refrain: There’s a vacant chair that’s waiting there in ev’ry home tonight. And a lonesome mother’s dreaming by the fire burning bright. She is thinking of her gallant boy who is fighting for the right. There’s a vacant chair in ev’ry home tonight. Verse: She fondly gazes at his picture hanging on the wall, Seems but yesterday he went away. Her dear lips keep repeating he’s the bravest boy of all. I’m lonely but I’m proud of him today, And oft she murmurs to herself alone, I hope that I’ll be here when he comes home. Refrain |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_676 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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