Ten Thousand Miles Away
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 07/05/2020

Day 52 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series  (folksongindex.com)

Sandburg writes: "Four times a year for twenty-two years William W. Delaney published at Park Row, NewYork, his ten-cent songbook, each one with about 170 songs, words only. "On the last page or two," he told me, "I always put a few old ones."

"A favorite of his, among the old ones, is Ten Thousand Miles Away. "It's a good song, you can have it," he said as I took down the notes. "Some mighty good men have sung it. The songs these days are cheap alongside what we used to have. You can't find tunes now like you could in the old days."

"And he said, after singing, "It's one people have forgotten. I don't know how old it is. The old men who sang it for me when I was a boy said it was an old song then. And they learned it from old men when they were boys."