"Good-Bye Dolly Gray"<br /><br />Harry Macdonough<br /><br />Victor A-655<br /><br />1901<br /><br />The Victor label is "pre-dog," which means it is so early that the company had not yet adopted Nipper for it's label.<br /><br />This opens with a spoken announcement. The tenor later recorded this again, but that later version does not open with an announcement.<br /><br />Lyrics by Will D. Cobb<br /><br />Music by Paul Barnes<br /><br />I have come to say goodbye, Dolly Gray.<br />It's no use to ask me why, Dolly Gray.<br />There's a murmur in the air--you can hear it everywhere.<br />It's the time to do and dare, Dolly Gray.<br /><br />So if you hear the sound of feet, Dolly Gray,<br />Sounding through the village street, Dolly Gray--<br />It's the tramp of soldiers' true in their uniforms so blue.<br />I must say goodbye to you, Dolly Gray.<br /><br />Goodbye, Dolly, I must leave you<br />though it breaks my heart to go.<br /><br />Something tells me I am needed at the front to fight the foe.<br /><br />See--the boys in blue are marching and I can no longer stay.<br />Hark! I hear the bugle calling.<br /><br />Goodbye, Dolly Gray.
