J Powers's video: TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE 1901 Home Recording on a brown wax cylinder record

(click "Show More" below) HOME RECORDING of Two Little Girls in Blue a brown wax cylinder record from 1901 The introduction states "Two Little Girls in Blue, made (?) November 27th, 19 Hundred and One" The song is played w/ an accordion accompaniment The musician on this recording is unknown. This was one of the most popular songs of the 1890s and, even today, the song is still performed and recorded. There were two commercial "Two Little Girls in Blue" brown wax cylinders prior to this home recording. They are: -by Imperial Minstrels: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990045505730203776&r=6&of=7 -by George Gaskin: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990044710500203776&r=4&of=7 "Two Little Girls in Blue" was composed by Charles Graham in 1893 https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm_a2937/ In 1921, a Broadway musical (Gershwin) opened w/ the same name, but I'm not quite sure how it relates to the 1893 song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Little_Girls_in_Blue 11/27/1901 in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1901 _27,_1901_(Wednesday) "Two Little Girls in Blue" lyrics An old man gazed at a photograph in a locket he'd worn for years, His nephew then asked him the reason why this locket had caused him tears, “Come listen,” he said, “and I'll tell you, lad, a story that's strange but true: Your father and I at the school one day met two little girls in blue.” Chorus (repeated after each verse): “Two little girls in blue, lad, two little girls in blue. They were sisters, we were brothers, and learned to love them true. One little girl in blue, lad, stole your father's heart, Became your mother, I married the other, and now we are ripped apart.” “The years rolled on and these girls grew up, one became my wife. I thought her unfaithful; we quarreled, lad, and parted that night for life. My fancy of jealousy wronged a heart, a heart that was brave and true, For two better girls never lived than they, those two girls in blue.”