This version in not the same as another version by the Haydn Quartet. <br /><br />This one is Victor 16412 <br /><br />Haydn Quartet sings “Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?” <br /><br />This temperance song was written by Reverend Robert Lowery in 1877. <br /><br />Where is my wandering boy tonight— <br />The boy of my tenderest care, <br />The boy that was once my joy and light, <br />The child of my love and prayer? <br /><br />O where is my boy tonight? <br />O where is my boy tonight? <br />My heart o’erflows, for I love him, he knows; <br />O where is my boy tonight? <br /><br />Once he was pure as morning dew, <br />As he knelt at his mother’s knee; <br />No face was as bright, no heart more true, <br />And none was so sweet as he. <br /><br />O could I see you now, my boy, <br />As fair as in olden time, <br />When prattle and smile made home a joy, <br />And life was a merry chime! [Refrain] <br /><br />Go for my wandering boy tonight; <br />Go search for him where you will; <br />But bring him to me with all his blight, <br />And tell him I love him still.
