Book Description

Excerpt from Ye Olden Time Songs of a Simple Life On my return to the city, I requested a music house to obtain copies of as many of the original prints of these songs as was possible to find. It has seemed apparent to me that the people were tiring of the songs and music of the present day, and would gladly welcome a return to the old-time songs of happier and simpler days, if given an Opportunity to do so. In this belief and feeling that our aged relatives and friends would enjoy hearing again the purer and more pathetic songs of the long ago, I have published the selections in this volume and, as nearly as possible, reproduced the old familiar titles, music and words as when first published. If the Old Time Songs give pleasure to others, and serve to drive away loneliness, as they did for me in the old farm house in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, mv object will have been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.