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In An Old-Fashioned Town

Ada Leonora Harris

“In An Old-Fashioned Town” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

Ada Leonora Harris: Collected Lyrics Text 1 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
Complete public-domain lyrics

This text comes from The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

There's an old-fashioned house in an old-fashioned street

In a quaint little old-fashioned town;

There's a street where the cobble stones harass the feet

As it straggles up hill and then down;

And, though to and fro through the world I must go,

My heart while it beats in my breast,

Where e'er I may roam, to that old-fashioned home

Will fly back like a bird to its nest.

Verse 2

In that old-fashioned house in that old-fashioned street

Dwell a dear little old-fashioned pair,

I can see their two faces, so tender and sweet,

And I love ev'ry wrinkle that's there.

I love ev'ry mouse in that old-fashioned house,

In the street that runs up hill and down,

Each stone and each stick, ev'ry cobble and brick

In that quaint little old-fashioned town.

Credits

Written by Ada Leonora Harris

Words by Ada Leonora Harris. Historical text published in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918), “In An Old-Fashioned Town”

The 1918 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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