Decoration Day Quartets (Male Voices)

Parks’ Decoration Day Quartets.  Number 1 for Male Voices.   (Cover title on some printings reads “Decoration Day Quartets : Men’s Voices.”)

The “newest” piece in the collection has a 1912 copyright.   Based on copies at the York County Historical Society.

  Song title (date) Lyricist /
Composer /
Arranger
Pg. # 8vo. #
  As the Sun Went Down (1898) Words Anon. / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 14 8vo No. 69
  The Blue Fades Into Gray (1909) Words from “The Baltimore American” / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 33 8vo No. 458
  Boys of the Old Brigade (1899) Words by F. E. WEATHERLY / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 22 8vo No. 66
  Boys Who Wear the Blue are Turning Gray (1899) Words and Music by J.A. PARKS p. 6 8vo No. 70
  Brave Heart Sleep On (1897) Words and Music by J.A. PARKS p. 11 8vo No. 68
  Comrades Asleep (1906) Words and Music by LEROY RUNYAN p. 28 8vo No. 136
  Cover Them Over (Decoration Day) (1897) Words by WILL CARLETON / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 16 8vo No. 67
  Gone to Their Rest (1907) Words by WEATHERLY / Music by ROECKEL - Harmonized for Male Voices by J.A. PARKS p. 30 8vo No. 409
  Mustered Out (1904) Words by WILL M. MAUPIN / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 25 8vo No. 227
  The Old “Red, White and Blue” (1912) Words by JOHN F. BEYERS / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 42
  Side By Side (solo and chorus) (1903) J.A. PARKS p. 3 8vo No. 195
  The Silent Tents of Green (1902) Words by LONGFELLOW / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 8 8vo No. 138
  A Song of Peace (1910) Words by JOAQUIN MILLER / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 36 8vo No. 502
  Under the Same Old Flag (1905) Words by ALLIE TOLAND CRISS / Music by J.A. PARKS p. 19 8vo No. 249
  Where Heroes Sleep (1911) Words by NELLE RICHMOND EBERHART / Music by F. ABT - Arrangement and Adaptation by J.A. PARKS p. 39 8vo No. 556

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