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„Lilly Dale“
Song, written and composed by H. S. Thompson

Chorus:
Oh! Lilly, sweet Lilly, dear Lilly, Dale,
Now the wild rose blossoms o’er her little green grave,
Neath the trees in the flow’ry vale.

Thompson's most famous work, Annie Lisle, is remembered as the melody for the Cornell University alma mater Far Above Cayuga's Waters and other school anthems.

A slightly altered version of the lyrics of Lilly Dale, an 1852 song similarly about a young maiden felled by disease, appear in the 1916 novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Country musician Bob Wills recorded an arrangement as Lily Dale, which itself was covered by Dolly Parton as "Billy Dale".

Thompson, H. S., "Lilly Dale" (1852). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 838.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/838

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Auf Spielwerken aus Böhmen und Wien wurde das Lied noch nicht gefunden. In der Schweiz erschien es zum Beispiel auf einem Spielwerk N°s 4321.

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