Hi everyone,
Some months ago, you helped me with some absolutely wonderful
information about the "Little Nut Tree" children's song; you may
remember that. Well, I'm into another search for perhaps an even
more obscure song.
I require of the students in my American Civilization class to read
the autobiography of a young woman who came into the American
West around 1880, to raise cattle in Montana. She mentions that
she had a reperitore or "three Scotch ballads" which she
occassionaly sang to the cowboys on the ranch. One of these was
"a teary song about a little child who was left alone by his parents.
The house caught fire and flames crackled around him. Each verse
ended with the sad refrain, 'Lost in the fire,' but in the final stanza
rescue came, and the last line of all was 'Saved from the fire.'
Particularly touching was the part where his baby voice lisped: 'God
told me you would come.'"
If anyone can help me discover this song and to get the music and
words for it, I would very much like (God willing) to sing it to my
students, to recreate some of the atmosphere of those bygone days.
Will wait and hope for you answers.
Thank you,
Bert Jenson
Utah State University
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