THE ORIGIN OF FAMOUS SONGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2

THE ORIGIN OF FAMOUS SONGS.

_ A celebrated composer once lost his way in a dense forest, when he found himself on a., path _ leading to what seemed a large'w . edifice in the distance. Meeting a person on this path, he inquired Ms way, but the s m'anmade no response. Meeting another the same proceeding took place, and also with six others that he met. He was at a loss to account for this until he came to the building, where he read the sign' Asylum for deaf Mutes.' This explained it all, and he sat down and wrote,' We'nevor apeak as we pass by,' Beethoven was once m6t during a heavy shower by a friend who wag unprotected from the eloments, ' Lond me your umbrella,' sighed the latter, The great master at once composed the song, '■ Wait till the olouds roll by." A composer of eminence being told that his music was somewhat trashy, and that he had better " turn over a new leaf," at onoe wrote " When the Loaves Begin to Turn," Frana Abfc once travelled upon a Western railroad, when he wag allowtd "five minutes for refreshments" in which to cat a 1'59 dol, dinner. Observing the furious gulps made by his fellow travellers to get their money's worth in theli.ited timq, he spontaneously composed 'When the Swallow Homeward Fly.' GugUJgk) once called upon a betrothed was invited to dine with them- The young man while carving a turkey, was gazing bo abstraotedly at his sweetheart that he sdntflfci the gobbler three times into the lap of tha ifr oomposer, and caused seven streams of •> gravy to tun over hfs face, Guglielmo left • without eating anything, and went homo and composed ' Tho Lover and the Bird." Claribe) wrote 'Take baok the heart'to a_ partner at whist who revoked when " diamonds were led, Sullivan, all over the house (or a piece of twineiMh a hundle with, sat down in a furious jJafSTn and evolved ' The lost Chord.'