Source: Warner (Mrs Tillett, Outer Banks), Sara Grey
Notes: (music by W. T. Wrighton; lyrics by J. E. Carpenter; published in Macon, Georgia, in the 1860's earlier 1856)
2/28 Every year my family spends a week on the outer banks of North Carolina, an area that is really rich in natural beauty and history. Not far from where we stay, the Warners collected this song from Mrs Tillett about half a century ago. Sara Grey loves to tell the story of finding the same song used today at the close of the ?riding the borders? annual ritual in the little town of Selkirk, Scotland. Please join me singing Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still.
Lyrics by Joseph Edwards Carpenter (2 November 1813, London – 6 May 1885, Bayswater) an English playwright, composer, and songwriter.
Music by William Thomas Wrighton (b. 1816, d. July 13, 1880) Tunbridge Wells; English composer.
Published in "Heart Songs: Dear to the American People" 1909.
