[Sheet music] You'd never know that old home town of mine

Accession Number	RC10878
Collection number	Sheet Music Collection 393
Collection type	Published Collection
Record type	Item
Item count	1
Object type	Sheet Music
Maker	Donaldson, Walter Johnson, Howard
Place made	Australia
Date made	c.1916-1919
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions	Digital format and content protected by copyright.

Description

Handwritten sheet music for the song titled 'You'd never know that old home town of mine', with lyrics written by Howard Johnson and music composed by Walter Donaldson. This arrangement has been written by Ernest Nicholls during the First World War period.

Private Ernest Alfred Nicholls, or Nick as he was known, was a member of The Aussies and The Perham Stars concert parties during the First World War .

Towards the bottom of this page is a sound recording of this sheet music, or a parody, that was created as part of the Music and the First World War project. More information about this recording, including names of the performers, can be found on the catalogue record for the sound recording. A link to the catalogue record for the sound recording can be found at the bottom of this page, under the heading ‘Related objects’ where it can be identified with the prefix [sound recording].