“Somebody's Darling”

Description

"Into the ward of the clean white-washed halls Where the dead slept and the dying lay... Somebody's darling was borne one day." "Somebody's darling, somebody's pride, Who'll tell his mother where her boy died?" All bid farewell to the handsome boy soldier

Notes

H. M. Wharton's _War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy_ (p. 188) gives the author's name as "Marie La Coste," rather than "de la Coste." Allsopp says it was *sung* by "Marie La Conte of Georgia." - RBW

References

1. Silber-CivWar, pp. 84-85, "Somebody's Darling" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. DT, SOMEDARL*
3. ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p.222, "(Somebody's Darling)" (1 fragment)
4. BI, SCW84