"Is That Mother Bending O’er Me?" (1863)
Song and Chorus
[Words? and Music]
Composed by
Ferdinand Mayer.

Boston, MA: Henry Tolman & Co., 291 Washington St.
Albany, NY: W. F. Sherwin
New York, NY: Wm. Hall & Son
Chicago, IL: Root & Cady
Plate No. 2974
[Source: 088/098]

1. Is that mother bending o’er me,
As she sang my cradle hymn,
Kneeling there in tears before me!
Say! my sight is growing dim.
Comes she from the old home lowly,
Out among the northern hills.
To her pet boy dying slowly
Of war’s battles, wounds and ills.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Mother fold your arms around me,
Press again my aching head,
Sing the lullaby you sang me
Kiss me, mother, ere I’m dead. ere I’m dead.

2. Mother! Oh, we bravely battled.
Battled till the day was done;
While the leaden hail storm rattled,
Man to man, and gun to gun.
But we failed and I am dying,
Dying in my boyhood’s years.
There, no weeping, selfdenying.
Noble deaths demand no tears!