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It's awf'ly hard to say good bye

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Date

1911

Authors

Brooks, Shelton [composer]

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Chicago, Illinois : Sunlight Music Co., 1911.

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Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.
Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 ? September 6, 1975) was an African American, Canadian born composer of popular music and jazz, who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century. Wikipedia [note]
Piano vocal [instrumentation]
Was you ever really loving [first line]
It's awfly hard to say goodbye [first line of chorus]
F [key]
Popular song ; rag [form/genre]
Shelton Brooks, Harry L. Newman (photographs) [illustration]
Chicago ENGR 10 [lithographer]
The novelty & souvenir shop 217 Washington Ave. Scranton, PA all the latest song hits [dealer stamp]
Publisher's advertisement on back cover [note]

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