This sheet music for the song “Good Night Is but Your Last Good-Bye” was written and composed by Leo Friedman and Jeffrey T. Branen. The music was originally published by William C. Dunn & Co. of New York, New York in 1902, and appeared as a supplement to the New York Herald on July 12, 1902. The cover features a photograph of Jessie Bartlett Davis inside the “G” of “Good Night” in the title, and a circular illustration of a man walking away from a woman as she closes her fence gate.
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