| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0284 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | I'm going home |
| Name of creator | Costello, Tom, 1863-1943, performer |
| Date | 1895 |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice titled, “I’m going home”, appearing as two folio sheets (total 8 pages). Cover depicts, in two scenes, an elderly gentleman in top-hat speaking to a young lady and a man in dishevelled dress being arrested by two policeman. The words of a chorus are also included: “I’m going home, but I’ve lost my bus, lost my way too, and lost my ‘puss’; lend me a quid I’ve a long way to go, to my home in the wilds of Pimlico.” |
| Notes | Back cover has a list of "Francis, Day and Hunter's newest comic songs". |
| Outer folio is torn along half the length of the spine. |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Comedy |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Mills, A. J., composer and lyricist |
| Costello, Tom, 1863-1943, performer |
| Banks, H. G., lithographer |
| Related Organisation | Francis, Day & Hunter, London, publisher |
| T.B. Harms & Co, New York, publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| Category | Sheet music |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
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| Level | Item |