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Cover features: title and composer information; drawing of soldier embracing a woman with house and peaceful landscape in background; inset facsimile photographs of the composer and H. Ruthven MacDonald (black, orange, and white).

When your boy comes back to you

Date1916
Names
FormatEphemera
Notes
For voice and piano.
Key: G major.
On front cover: "By Gordon V. Thompson, writer of 'When Jack Comes Back', 'Khaki', 'Do your bit', etc."
On back cover: advertisement for publisher's "Songs of the homeland".
Subject
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
    Sheet music
    Dimensions35 cm x 26 cm (13 3/4 in. x 10 1/4 in.)
    Language
      CollectionSpecial Collections in the Arts
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberCSM-THOWHE1916-002
      When your boy comes back to you
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