Excerpt from Songs From Mother Goose: For Voice and Piano

MY editor insists that I say something about the circumstances which led to the writing of these songs. They were written in response to a frequently repeated request from my wife for some songs that the whole family could sing together. As we are a large family and the youngest member, Joy, is but four years old, it did not seem possible that anything that she could grasp would appeal to the others.

But, one day, in the midst of other work, I came across some selections from Mother Goose. I realized that here was something which could be equally en joyed by children of all ages, and even by grown ups who are children at heart, and from this resulted the present set of songs. They were written without any particular age in mind. Thus, little Joy sings most of them by heart, while at the same time Mrs. Homer and our eldest daughter, Louise, have found a place for them in their song recitals.

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