[Sheet music] Australian Y.M.C.A. songs, Vol. 1.

Accession Number RC10922
Collection number Sheet Music Collection 437
Collection type Published Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Measurement Overall - closed: 34 cm x 26 cm
Object type Sheet Music
Maker Various
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c.1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Description

Album of sheet music titled 'Australian Y.M.C.A songs Vol I', published about 1915. The album contains a collection of individual sheet music pieces for 20 popular songs issued by various London publishers bound into a single volume. The sheet music is written for voice and piano. The titles include:
- 'A perfect day'
- 'Come sing to me'
- 'For auld lang syne, Australia will be there'
- 'Here we are, here we are, here we are again: The British Army's battle song'
- If you were the only girl in the world'
- 'I'll sing thee songs of Araby'
- 'Just try to picture me back home in Tennessee'
- 'Keep the home fires burning'
- 'Little grey home in the west'
- 'Mother Machree'
- 'My old Shako'
- 'The mountains o'Mourne'
- 'There's a long, long trail'
- 'The veteran's song: Long live the King'
- 'Thora'
- 'Two eyes of grey'
- 'Up from Somerset'
- 'When Irish eyes are smiling'
- 'When you come home'
- 'Where my caravan has rested'