National Postal Museum
Sheet music for “The Old Postmaster”
1900
This piece of sheet music titled “The Old Postmaster” includes music by Joseph W. Stern (1870-1934) and words by Edward B. Marks (1865-1945). The piece was copyrighted in 1900 by Joseph W. Stern & Company of New York, New York. The cover sheet for this ballad features the interior of a rural post office in which the 'old postmaster' is depicted talking to a woman and two children. In the song, the old postmaster tells the townspeople that he will not retire. He will remain postmaster as long as he can because he is waiting for a letter from his son, who went to sea years before.
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