“Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still”

Description

"It's been a year since last we met, We may never meet again. I have struggled to forget, But the struggle was in vain. For her voice lives in the breeze...." The sailor lives, dreams, and ornately alludes to the memory the sweetheart he left behind

Recordings

• Eleazar Tillett and Martha Etheridge, "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" (on USWarnerColl01)

References

1. Warner 157, "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" (1 text plus a songster version, 1 tune)
2. Colcord, pp. 165-166, "Her Bright Smile" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 31-32, "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" (1 text, 1 tune)
4. DT, BRITESML*
5. Roud #4353
6. BI, Wa157