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jfTm- W. Delaney y Who Wrete Songs
Sung by Millions, Closes Lyric
Haunted Music Shep te Earn Living
as Compositor After 30 Years at Old
Stand.
"CAN'T BLAME 9EM" IS
PHILOSOPHIC COMMENT
AS POPULARITY WANES
Wrete Words and Composed Melodies
of 300 Musical Hits in Vanished
Days When Sentiment Held Sway
"Let me write the ballads of the country and I don't care who
writes the laivs." Ned Yale's version.
Weep a bitter tear for the departing day of the sentimental ballad!
Score a knockout for the saxaphene ever the gentle lyre of min
itrelsyl Fer jazz and prohibition have put out of business the last of Amer
ica's old-fashioned troubadours.
Because the youth of the land prefer tifnes te words, and because
saloons and taverns are no longer the gathering places for communal fes
tivity, the king of chapboekmakers, the author of 300 popular ballads, the
publisher or vi,zvu mere, must ciese up snep,
Fer thirty years past, William W.
Delnncy has spent from sunup te
sunset in his little ahep at 117 Park
Rew, New Yerk, supplying the
United States and Canada with a
colorful variety of ballads, songs
and snatches. But with the autumn
he will belt all the shutters and lock
all the doers, for the day of his sort
of singing seems te be ended.
Who is there who doesn't recall
"Let Her Ge, GallaghcV' and "We
Knew Net Hew te Leve Her Till
She's Gene"? Who hasn't trilled
through the songs of Willie Wild
v wave, Andy Lee and Ned Yale,
During the eighties and the nine
ties, net a saloon from Philadel
phia's own tenderloin te the sinister
parishness of the far Western Bar
hary Coast lacked the pleasant di
version and the sentimental sadness
of these humble masterpieces. Ner
many respectable homes.
Many were the tears, gripping the
heartache and the homesickness,
caused by Willie Wildwave, Ned
Yale and Andy Lee, who could play
upon the heartstrings of simple
minded folk with the art of a Casals
en the cello, of a Kreisler en the vio
lin. "Yes, I'm the three of them. They
are all me, Wildwave, Yale and Lee,
and I guess they Won't write many
mere songs," says Mr. Delaney.
"Somehow, folks don't like that sort
of thing any mere. Men don't get
together in the taverns and ask for
a song or a recitation the way they
used te. And the young folks don't
pay a bit of attention te the werd3
of their songs nny mere.
"But you can't blame 'cm," says'
Mr. Delaney. "Times change. I be
ihnnH 1. i
".mi " L,,a racier, a story.
nil Ti !re T, .t,w?,thin.?s 1 lke best in
,' hP, werlil" Mr. Delnncy will tell
ou n levclv i,nd song nnd a geed
crack -up puzzle.
Pnw-'llTmNnbcr. of the National
nn.Pi m, Lcn8uer"-c?urcr. in fact,
find I like a geed puzzle. Hew about
,iL?,yi fir h?8 f."r ,ctters and Is a
mineral. My Inst has four letters nnd
nn P - if re"nd-n My total 0ll US"
en a geed etgnr. That's one of mv
own, and only one mnn out of 3,j0 ec'r
guessed t. The answer is 'spark.' 1))
m a hundred would guess that, be
cause there ure nny number of minera!-,
written with four letters coal, for in
stance. Don't you sce it yctV 'Spur,'
'park, 'spark.' ' '
Made Norn de Plume
Frem Own Anagrams
"I'eu knew my nnmes nre anngrnms,
C linage the letter of 'Ned Ynle around
nnd ou get 'Andy Lee. They are mv
puzzler names and I used them en many
of my songs."
icM.r,,1)t'Inney wns born August 10,
IhliJ, in what was then called the Gas
Heuse District of New Yerk, where the
boss of Tammany was mere than lord
and master.
"I just had a grammar school edu
cation. Hut when I was thirteen I be
came n messenger boy nnd then a
printer. I lmd lets of chance te learn
things. And one dny I met the song
writer who lies dearest te mv heart.
"Somehow or ether I wns always in
terested in puzzles, and In my young
days everj body else seemed te be. There
were nil kinds of puzzle magazines, nnd
most of the newspapers published puz
zles, ns they de today, hut they were
a different kind. They weren't pic
tures; they were pecins nnd charades
and anngrnms.
"Well, in 1870 or thereabouts I be
gan writing puzzles for the Sunday Citi
zen. It wns an Irish pnper, and the
poet of 'the paper wns Jehn Lecke. Ills
great ballad culled 'Morning en the
Irish Const,' was n wonderful fine
thing. He took u liking te me, nnd I
te him, and te emulate him I began
writing songs. Hut I neicr get them
right. I'd nlun.is mnku the lines te
, ilnme. but some lines would have seven
lieve in giving the people just what ' riIla,.,1,,'s' M,me ,,,'I,V, em(; , seventeen.
. " ' rl linv'il nt I ilirlii't Mil til if iintr-
H t? II t 111,1 I lllltll L t i i I 1 1 II l llllil
tereil, se long as the lines rhjiued.
Taught te Write Verse
by Old Seng Writer
"Hut Jehn Lecke tnught me differ
ently. He showed me hew. He said
'.'Vi J"st like building n wall. If jeu
pur uimii-a row et i u.'.eku, mid
plastered en top of that row eighteen
they want, nnd when they don't
want any mere of whatever you have
te gie them, then it's time for you
te clear out. And that's why I'm
dosing down my shop.
ui'ca fSPTafes fiBDt ftP xrt
ccnts and necidents that happened.
l ami I,. BuiHvnn fight, a big fire.
Jney weren't satisfied with just
newspaper accounts. They wnnted
a song about 'cm. And the songs
were hawked en the street just like
the newsboys yell out papers en
"fifth nvenue today. But an old man
yeaunL?n?Uit who?, he cant Pfcnse the
lounge,. Koncrntien nny mQrc Hea
Wt te take n back Mnt when the
or!! sheets ahead of him. And a
Sties"' t0 WOn'y abUt inevita-
Old Seng Shep Is Lest
Among mercantile Marts
"Delnney'a Seng Beeks" is the
faded sign that stretches across a
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'h bright, blatantly advertised
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and Npain's tneert;
They'll find out. ere long, they're but
a small faction
And toen thetf will heed American
tears.
Oed bless our Irbve tars who in Cuba
are sleeping,
Let stceet holy mush play its soft
strain;
America grieves and sadly is weeping
Fer her gallant sons en the battle
ship Maine.
"Felks who weren't old enough te
remember these days won't remember
hew tongs like thnt used te be gobbled
up. They weren't sold just in ew
Yerk, but all ever tb country. Men
that we call 'song fakers' went intu
saloons, nnd while the patrons sat
nreund drinking nnd talking, the fakers
would sing the songs nbeut the blow; blew;
lng up of the Mnlnc. And everybody
wnnted a copy.
"There nre net many fakers left te
de that, and there nre mighty few
places for thm te go, If there hap
pened te be nny of them left."
At that very moment n hearty, stout
wanted about their mother or their old
friends."
Songs of Mether Leve
Touched Public Heart
Such a song, which proved unuiunlly
successful for the author, wns "We
Knew Net Hew te Leve Her Till She h
Cene!" Always bound te touch the
heart of somceno in nn audience, It
roealed even In the shabbiest drunk
ard slithering oer a table In the
corner of n smelly hnrroem, the capacity
Mtlll te be touched by memories of n
better day.
In n weak but rnther nleasant voice,
Willie Wildwave, for that is the nnme
lie has written net enlv the words but
also the music te most of his sengx,
"Sounds uucer, tlecn't It 7" m
smiled. "Well, te be a son,; composer
it nln't necessary te knew nnythlng
nbeut music. Yeu Just get te hnve B
head that's a geed place for stray tune
te knock around In. And tunes may
come en jeu any minute whlle you
are shaving, when eu're at jour meal.
"Sometimes the words of a ballad
you've written just naturally suggest
the right melody. Anjhew, once the
melody Is tunning through your head
.Mm go te a iMUNl.Inn nnd hum the tuna
te him. nnd he sets It en paper for
jeu. And jeu give him imv for that.
,t least that's tin, wa I did it. I
the song in bis drenry little store
room :
'TIs hard te realise
Haxe little de we prise,
The true friends that we meet upon
fi'f'i ir'if,
We may love them very well,
nut the facts tec rtrrcN,
I'nmindful we may leic them any day.
Xaw a mother's heart m dear.
I'nnd and true from year te year
gentleman rushed into the shop, get a eml ( ana .true , rem year 'evcar
I bundle of song nooks irem uiss aumu i "" " " --
I Delnncy nnd after a cheery greeting 10
the proprietor, wanted nasiiiy ou:.
"TTn'ti nni nf tlin few left." said Mr.
Delaney. nodding tewurd the deer. 'He
just happens te be in the elt. He
travels everywhere, singing his songs
te men who are gathered together. II',
recites, tee. That man hns recited
D'Arcy's 'Face en the Hnrroem Fleer
In every State in the Union."
Mr. Delnncy said that In the nine
ties! nnd eighties song fakers all eer
the country weie the biggest source of
revenue.
Ballads About Publtv
Calamities Popular
"On these songs nbeut calamities T
used te clear up a pretty pocketful. I
rume near clearing close te $10,000
altogether en the Maine song. I'J
mnku n half cent en each cepj Hut
thnt day's gene. Fakers don't wire
us any longer for ballads about the
terrlblv tragic things that happen In
the world. Net n soul asked ler one
about the World War."
Fer u moment Mr. Delaney was lest
in thought.
signed te this particular ballad, saiu , dictated mj tunes te a musician. Just
iiKe ,ou dictate n letter te a stenog
rapher. "(if course it was different nbeut
these ballads en calamities. Wouldn't
be nny time te compose u new tuna
then. Hesldes, jeu i cully hud te have
a melody thnt even body knew. Thnt
helped convince tlieni they ought te buy.
Se I used te sel.ct the most popular
tunc of tkc dnj.
Medem Popular Airs
Net Like Old Ones
"Today we hue no popular tunes Ilka
In thee daji. Where's there n tune
today that even approaches within sir
miles of the iiemiliii'lti. if 'U,.if mil
1 the Sun Shines. .Will.","' Vl, .,.
j car-olds could hum that song"!
"Yeu knew, en the dny of the Frisce
earthquake I grabbed that meledv nnd
!!!!'.. ," S()MK of " ' ''"'led It "'Wait
I'll the Sim Shines. FiU' nn.l If
lnell
Hut we seldom Knew her worth
While she's with im here en earth,
.Ye, lie frneie nef hew te letc her till
she's gOnct
cuenvs
We Knew net hew te love her till she's
gene, . .
Our dear and darling mother till she s
gene,
11V Ineir net hew te leic her
Jill ineinrcn gtais nruwa .' -.. ; , ui one et the most popular senes I
.Ye, ur Ameic nef hew te love her till i m,l. i,,rt. lt ,,, ; ' ' umr Ken8s x
she a gene.
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When n mother's life is done
An aii'iil's creien m iron
Among thr loved ones that haic gene
hi fore,
The' wr Knew it must be se,
.Still it oeii no the blew.
Our hearti nic lift with grieving sad
and sere.
We remember all her care
As ice Knelt betide her chair,
When we listiued te the prayers that
she u eulil con.
And think fondly uith n sinh,
That in fancy ulic is man.
it was just at
as they
reta
"Hut you can't blame 'em for that , i, ur illelr ni hen te lore her till
fioergo M. Cehan wrote tne only bal- sj,c's gene!
1...1 ..C li.t ii lmtt lift 4v rnfn ( It in '
(Jill III HIV ii i i ""'v . . t
There.' I m going te tell jeu that
folks don't gic songs credit. De jeu
knew what heartens a man? lt' a
geed, hang-up, stirring bong. And I'm
lendy te believe that the one man who
did the most te bring about the end
of this war was Geerge M. Cehan wiHi
Iher There.'
"He's (he greatest living song
writer. He's get the fine old scnil-
l.oeK beck thre' all the years,
And think of all the tears
That she has shed uhen discontent iras
xhewn.
Frem the ciadle te the grave,
She would die her ehihl te saie.
And all she asKs is' kindness from her
en n.
Treat your mother with a smile
"Willie Wildwave," "Ned Yale" and "Andy Lee," otherwise known as William V. Delaney,
composer of 300 ballads, and lyrics of a past generation, who is forced te earn a living as a
compositor since jazz'has dominated the popular taste
bricks, and en top of that four, and en
top of that eight, the wall wouldn't
stand up, he used te say. If you want
the wnll te stand jeu'U put ten bricks
en top of ten bricks. And he told me
it's the snme way with a poem. And
that's the way I learned te write songs
with meter as well as rhyme."
Frem 1S78 en for about six years
Mr. Delaney was puzzle editor of Neah's
Sunday Times, a New Yerk weekly.
At the miiuu time he wns Interested In
amateur journalism. In 1881 he was
amateur and puzzle editor of Hnrrlgau
ami Hart's New Yerk Hejs. y
At that time there was a great deal
of Intel est In amateur jeurnnllsm nmeng
the jeuth of the land. L'nprofession L'nprefession L'nprofessien
ally, and still In knickers, many bejb
tried thctrhnnd at writing, nnd them
cropped up numerous weeklies, often
edited by bejs, nnd always read by
them. In 1870 tlure was organized,
Mr. Delaney said, the National Ama
teur l'ress Association.
"James M. Heck, who became solici
tor general of the United States, was
one of the founders. And I remember
hew we forced him up en a chair he
were knUkeii te make a speech. I
don't suppose maiiv people knew that
(ioxeiuer Sproul. of I'ennsjlvanln, and
old Jee Daniels nnd Cjrus II. K. Cur
tis are members of this organization."
In the eighties Diluuej was i.litn:'
and publisher of The Hejs of Goth Geth
am, a weekly which lasted mil) one
j car. It was published for bej.s b) a
boy, at a subscription rate of twentj
tlvc cents n year. There were -00 sub
scribers and it lasted only a year.
"Ilarlv in 1.V.1S T snlil mv llrm s.nn'r
It went te The Clipper nnd wns cnllcd
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Sinking of the Maine
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"1'he .in the .Maine w.i. sunk n.j
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aster teadied us, I knew th.it ,i sing
about It would go big. In .m,. ,U 1
wiete a song te the tune el 'The Ciiin
berhind Crew ' My sister Annie ami I
set the tjpe for it. V,. iuslie.1 ll te
a newspaper . ;lh. e and had a million
struck oft. Ihe ei in t .in ui, ..n
talks were talking ,about the tiugeilv '
liawked bv men en rim ,,,,,,..,. i ;.
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sold hue het takes. Hen- it i. "
Mem a dusty shelf the old timtlir.
ilDiir get down a pile et s.uu' books, lie
fished out nt the pile the book ton ten
til lllllig the M'lses called ''Tin ll.ittic
ship Maine " :
Oh, shipmates, remr gather ami list te
my stm y,
It's a trnlble incident that happened
of late;
Over tue himdiid emiic tins diul in
thrir (ilm it.
Whin thy liiiltlishlp )l,n,ic met her
mid fate,
Vcbrumy thr fifiuiithn dah ur f
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and imin;
"J'is n pity that Hed up nlunc us should
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Huch a 'sad end te the battleship
Mutnc. '
ttcd day, about ten In the
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Havana.' fair city, was peaceful and
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'Ihe deml nnd thr dying they lllteieit the
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hi a mom, nt the uaik of destruction
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lutity ' ii i nl thv murlm i,
ll hih mmllii tl,( ,ius about mil shhi
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Offiu is and m y n,,e almost iimhiic;
hut net one lnuu tar his duty tcus
sliiinKtm;,
(mtl bless eniy man en the buttle,
ihip Mttiiu.
Was it an anldait.' Let time tell the
slot y.
And don't blame thr bard if he casts
a de a lit :
I lie lilm I, Spanish days-
n n mis air yiiiji.
Unite Cuba fei ytuis has giien thtm
bout,
Lit eii t'niis'il liiaie l.ec -make a
t thoieviih "maim lien,
Wr'ir sun that he'll uuiKc the mm,.
Ill l Is CJ nliiin
Toe long havewe tan led at peer Guba
euujivuun,
w"i" V0 1rect our 6"n'P
(Jn a Wtdmsduy morn,
dmen.
.Van Fran-isre aet a sheck:
J acre wnr ears nf dicad
jumped from he,1.
And lath house bemin te rnek.
1 hen a rry of fire from the coast
hinlier.
Their fair rily iras in flame!
(mm death It was near as they steed In
fear.
When I say this, can you blamef
Chei us
Wait till the sun shines. 'Frisce. M
struken, help m ;ii?i,
I ll r mil semi suicer, ' Frlsee, don't you
I stijh :
! Itchef tinins are fast speeding, Wett
i Hard thri u ill fly.
wail till thr w,i shines, 'Frisce, bit
a ml. by!
'I he' the earth may-quake, we will net
forsake
Vem ii oie in your time of need;
The our i-ealth be small, you can hat)
it all,
,y"r "'ril make stout hearts' bleed,
lis a stagqering blew that has struck
you low.
Hut lemember help is ni'ih!
Columbia tLceps, but Westwaid sht
leaps.
And this is her heartfelt cry:
In the htt' nineties the famous Wind Wind
eor Hetel. ..f New Yerk, burned te tha
ground. The cenflagratum occurred un
der the most spectacular clrcumstnncea
just at the moment when a St.
Patrick's pnrad" was marching bravely
along I'lftli avenue.
And while the public still gnzed with
morbid curiosity at the ruins next day
the chnpboek endets shouted in their
ears the alluring title of thftt0t8t
slng bv "Willie Wildwave It was "fha
"Windser Hetel 'ir" rushed before
the public with a speed that was almost
Incredible The snug was sung te tha
tune ..f "(In the Hanks of the Wabash,"
as fellows :
I The M. I'litrid.'s day parade was gayly
mnrrh'.na
I p Fifth tiirnucXcw Yerk's great
thoieinhfai e :
Uhen suddenly theie came
Ii ei rer.
The Windser is en flic! rang en tht
air,
t the u indeirs leuld be seen tht
lightened people
Who aiiil or help -but many cried
in i 'iia ,
I m thr flames rniulfai them in itt
mmlili in il fin y,
nli. mini in mar ri that sight
a 'in i n '
Chei us
Oh, the sun it shuts today upon the'
city.
And our pteple, in thin .soneic, bow
their head ;
Fer the hetil it is but a vinss of ruins,
"J'ts a menumint fin our tamd diad.
Our mine firemai, noble fellows, then
came iuu Kty,
And fought the sirk'nlny flames with
all tlicir miiht :
Theie are many gallant ristucs te their
rrtdit,
lUann bless them! they die always
In the fniht.
Hut that's a lady's mime I'd like te
mi ntiaii,
'Mid tin leh ami untlthy ilasset
slit ' s hi t n hi luiett il
Slit's an nii'.'W. if titnt inir u as en
etlm,
Thr sold t is' luiemt Iim Helen
(If,. i Id'
Old-Time Seng Writer
Watched Public Pulse
Ne doubt but what th old song
wilier kept bis tlnai r mi he pulse of
Ills public. He IN him Ii" Used te
oaf nbeut m sue, t .'iiiiem itherlnz
111 the gestup, im I,,, us.'.l te nit in
Hast Sil. miIm.h.s nn.l llt.n te the'
low M'I- s li'.l ,,m hm , I),,. ,, Nt n,ws
about j.illbin's 11.. w i iK , u.j. i
. mile v'ini'i in, n gailiintl together,
mi ii i in i M114 mc i
MOIllll gl.l.lU . , III- . Mil -l.l.i
l .1. Il.'il I'll,. , tulut,,
h. ir In ,.i t
A) lit a l.i-1 1 i 1 1 1 it was 1). hue) w'he
siillll ll ,v f It iMllli- ll.. In-ill tH of the
i"ii ion it nn I ills j. ji.,w iiiiiistr.'lw un-
tiei-Moeii I lie leiuict, llii- (i
tiew ii-im.l-.iiiti r, ilie pain tl
iier-M t lie '.. inel In i f. i. u .1,.. ,.l..t
of an imi-tl. uhiie .kid
Mr Delane) .Iucmi t fietl te wnt9
main meie sngs f j,,,, (11 ,i().
de II t.n ii'd til ic's hl(k,. t Jluifl
ii n u'.iiiil' l i it mi nn i ,,,, mu,
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lie I- U fakels wl. Mill ii , eilllll.
w lint I Mm g in.' t de i i , , back
te Mil old In. lie of lln m I,,, unJelj
I leained when J wni- w ., v,g ,,,,,1,
tlie best-leleil of m i ,. ii.
. . . . ., wim
ii se ig he
et -that
diptlm of
iistrelw un-
ininp, thai
at an un-
I.oeke.
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r.l" i.m.'s. I lmie.i"V been aid. te I "" Zi'"" "' """ "('
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Mr. Delane) I, mm tin..,. ehjM,,.,,, but
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youieuincy'-t ,,,., wain ii.; ..hV ", V1
ii, eieepe, .east e , MIH fe,
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Let "Washington, tremble at their, hair
.nvy.ivn , .
with a semr.
nomelieiv T nl,,....'.. ... I..,, .
enei h f ;.V,'""' ."' .V-'i' ,Ie Oil
,j.- .... i.iuiiitia, AMI i'yn seen
'feam come te the eyes of old,9 ,lmr
flmen. and I'ye seen them bow theVr
heada-vhen I'd aif thiw..;- "ffiK
finished.
asked, ulinii l,n 1....1
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