Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_over-the-hill_charles-hart-klein-allen-rubens_gbia0014608b
https://archive.org/details/78_over-the-hill_ernest-hare-klein-allen-rubens_gbia0017848a
https://archive.org/details/78_over-the-hill_samuel-ash-alien-and-rubens_gbia0031622b
Publication Date
1921
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Daddy O’ Mine, dear Mother divine,
This world’s unjust,
I fear I saw a play, a scene from life,
My eyes still hold a tear I never dreamed there’ such a place as I have seen today,
Where they send old folks Over the Hill,
To the poorhouse far away:
[Refrain]
Over the Hill,
Over the Hill,
Why should they be there,
Over the Hill?
Where are the ones they cherished when small,
For whom they strived, and gave them their all,
What have they done for such a fate,
I know that it isn’t God’s will! In a palace of gold,
They should live when they’re old,
Instead of Over the Hill.
[Verse 2]
Daddy O’ Mine, dear Mother divine,
I’ll ne’er forget that scene
The day her son brought her back home,
It seemed ‘twas all a dream
If ev’ry one were like that son who loved so tenderly,
There’d be no poor house Over the Hill,
What a blessing that must be:
[Refrain]
Recommended Citation
Klein, Lou; Allen, Edgar; and Rubens, Maurie, "Over the Hill" (1921). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1451.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1451
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Music Publishers, Cor. Broadway & 47th St. (1921)
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