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| "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" | |
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| Song | |
| Written | 1875 |
| Published | 1876 by John Church Company |
| Genre | Traditional pop |
| Songwriter(s) | Thomas P. Westendorf |
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" is a popular song written by Thomas Paine Westendorf (1848–1923) in 1875. (The music is loosely based on Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Flat Minor Opus 64 Second Movement). In spite of its German-American origins, it is widely mistaken to be an Irish ballad.
Westendorf, born in Virginia of German parents, was then teaching at the reform school known as the Indiana House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders in Hendricks County, Indiana. He wrote it for his wife (who was, however, named Jane), who had made a visit to her home state of New York due to homesickness. It is an answer song to a popular ballad of the time, "Barney, Take Me Home Again," composed by Westendorf’s close friend, George W. Brown, writing under the nom de plume of George W. Persley.[1][2]
- ^ Richard S. Hill, "Getting Kathleen Home Again" in Notes [of the Music Library Association] Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jun., 1948), pp. 338–353
- ^ "Columnist Debunks Plainfield's Connection to a Famous Song". Patch.com. 3 November 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
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