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Place a Candle in the Window 'Till Your Laddie Boy Comes Home

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"Place a Candle in the Window 'Till Your Laddie Boy Comes Home"
Sheet music cover
Song
LanguageEnglish
Published1918
Composer(s)Maxwell Goldman
Lyricist(s)Fern Glenn

"Place a Candle in the Window 'Till Your Laddie Boy Comes Home" is a World War I song written by Fern Glenn and composed by Maxwell Goldman.[1] The song was first published in 1918 by Buck & Lowney in New York, New York. The sheet music cover depicts a soldier returning to a snow covered house with a candle in the window.[2]

The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library as well as the University of South Carolina.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Vogel 1995, p. 229.
  2. ^ Parker 2007, p. 535.
  3. ^ Goldman, Maxwell; Glenn, Fern (1918). Place a candle in the window 'till your laddie boy comes home. OCLC 30797753.

Bibliography

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  • Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Vol. 2. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2799-4. OCLC 71790113.
  • Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-89950-952-5. OCLC 32241433.