Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Method of a Famous Song Writer. [ARTICLE]

Method of a Famous Song Writer.

The late C. A. White, the songwriter, had no theoretical knowledge of music, and studiously avoided going to the opera and like performances, lest his originality should be impaired. His soug, “Put Me in My Little Bed,” was suggested to his mind one night as he was going home, by seeing a picture of the prophet Samuel in tho window of a Boston shop. Samuel was kneeling by a bedside with his hands clasped in prayer. Mr. White wrote the melody and the first verse in about fifteen minutes. When ho composed “Marguerite,” he decided to attempt a love song, and then thought out a story. With this in mind ho picked up his violin, tuned it and the melody seemed to come of itself without coaxiug.—[Chicago Hera’d.