- Written by
- John Jacob Niles
- Composition date
- 1908
- Language
- English
- ISWC
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T-902.752.607-4 ASCAP, ISWC
- Comments
- Sixteen year old John Jacob Niles wrote this song during the period 1907-1908 for an older girl he liked and he offered it to her as a gift. She rejected both the song and him. Disappointed he placed the manuscript in "cold storage" for nearly 22 years.
- Licensing
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