Word: listening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Listen to the mocking bird, Listen to the mocking bird, Still singing where the weeping willows wave...
...Listen to the mocking bird, Listen to the mocking bird, The mocking bird is singing o'er her grave...
Almost anybody who can whistle knows Listen to the Mocking Bird, the song that asks "Oh where! Oh where! is my little dog gone?" and What Is Home Without a Mother? Almost nobody knows the name of the author of any of them. It so happens that the same man wrote all three, and 112 more besides. His name was Septimus Winner, he was born no years ago last week (May 11) and some Philadelphia antiquarians took that occasion to issue a little monograph,* largely documented by Winner's diary, to bring one of the nation's notable...
...idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird. But shortly after it was published in 1855 Winner sold his copyright on Listen to the Mocking Bird for $5. Lee & Walker, the purchasers, made a fortune. The song sold over 20,000,000 copies, was a favorite of Edward VII as a boy. Lincoln said: "It is as sincere and sweet as the laughter of a little girl at play." Many an ante-bellum baby was named after Hally, the fictitious girl over whom the song...
...flames now. Oh, the humanity! Those passengers! I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen! Honest, it is a mass of smoking wreckage. Lady, I am sorry. Honestly, I can hardlyק am going to step inside where I can't see it. Charley, that is terrible! Listen, folks, I am going to have to stop for a minute because I have lost my voice...