AN OLD SWEETHEART OF
MINE
Yes, here is the most popular poem of the "Turn of the Nineteenth Century" in America...only on jameswhitcombriley.com. It is set in music for a "musical monologue."
WHO WOULD READ THIS SONG TODAY ACCOMPANIED TO THIS SCORE? You see jameswhitcombriley.com is branching out into audio! Yes, audio! We hope to have an audio track of this soon. But who will READ it! It has not been PERFORMED in America for close to 100 years.
If you think you can read this (while being accompanied), please send an audio tape of it to us and if we master the technology here at jameswhitcombriley.com we will add it to the website.
IN THE MEANTIME, here is America's most romantic poem of the last century in a 1913 version:
