Oh! How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home

Creator

Albert Wilfred Barbelle

Creator Biography

Words: Sam. M. Lewis and Joe Young

Music: Pete Wendling

Publisher: Waterson, Berlin and Snyder Co.

Preview

Creation Date

1918

Credit Line

Gift of Em Townsend ('25), 2025

Accession Number

2025.107.8

Description

This piece of sheet music is a bifolio with four pages. The cover depicts a young child in a bed facing towards the viewer. In the background is a nighttime scene encircled within a white frame, showing a full moon through a window with curtains. In the bottom left corner is a black and white photograph of a man labeled with the words “Successfully Introduced by Al Jolson.”