Sheet Music, You're A Million Miles from Nowhere (When You're One Little Mile from Home): Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, You're A Million Miles from Nowhere (When You're One Little Mile from Home): date made: 1919. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
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As this song suggests, physical and emotional senses of distance do not always agree. A singer a mile from home may feel "a million miles from nowhere." The words are by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young with music by Walter Donaldson.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1919
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23.5 cm x 31 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 12 7/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.036
- catalog number: 1988.3086.036
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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