Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
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Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_0719-Indiana
https://archive.org/details/78_14840-Indiana
https://archive.org/details/78_get-happy_art-hodes-and-his-orchestra-ballard-macdonald-james-f.-hanley-sidney-de-p_gbia0009384
https://archive.org/details/78_indiana_harry-james-and-his-orchestra-macdonald-hanley_gbia0014050a
https://archive.org/details/78_indiana_knickerbocker-quartette-hanley_gbia0016833b
https://archive.org/details/78_indiana_original-dixieland-jass-band-hanley_gbia0001060b
https://archive.org/details/78_indiana_sterling-trio-ballard-macdonald-james-f.-hanley_gbia0013572a
https://archive.org/details/78_indiana-back-home-again-in-indiana_ken-griffin-b-macdonald-hanley_gbia0018428b
Publication Date
1918
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I have always been a wand’rer,
Over land and sea,
Yet a moonbeam on the water
Casts a spell o’er me,
A vision fair I see,
Again I seem to be:
[Chorus]
Back home again In Indiana,
And it seems that I can see
The gleaming candle light still shining bright
Thru the sycamores for me,
The new mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam,
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash, Then I long for my Indiana home.
[Verse 2]
Fancy paints on mem’ry’s canvas
Scenes that we hold dear,
We recall them in days after,
Clearly they appear,
And often times I see
A scene that’s dear to me:
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Macdonald, Ballard and Hanley, James F., "Indiana" (1918). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 738.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/738
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Indiana
Words by Ballard Macdonald
Music by James F. Hanley
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. (1918)
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