"The Ocean Burial"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Allen, George Nelson; Oliver Ditson & Co.; Chapin, Edward H. (Reverend)
USA, MA, Boston
1850
paper
13 x 10-1/8 in.

Sheet music, "The Ocean Burial", song and quartette, new and improved edition. Words (unascribed) by Rev. Edward H. Chapin. Music by George N. Allen (1812-1877), and dedicated to his sister. Published Boston by Oliver Ditson, 1850. Cover in various scrolls and typefaces. 3 pages. (Notes by S. M. Frank 2004,: Chapin's lyrics published 1839 in the "Southern Literary Messenger". Song circulared on shipboard and inspired western parody "The Dying Cowboy" ("Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie").) See also 1933.92, 2002.24.8.

2004.61.41