This sheet music is for the song “Gentle Annie” that was written and composed by Stephen C. Foster and published by Firth, Pond, & Company of New York, New York in 1855. The cover text on the plain cream white sheet music cover has a floral lattice-patterned frame. The song is part of the series of “Foster’s Melodies, No. 31.” The song’s lyrics talk about a lover losing his Annie, as she had passed on.
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