abstract
| - I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen is a popular song written by Thomas P. Westendorf in 1875. In spite of its German-American origins, it is widely mistaken to be an Irish ballad. Westendorf, then teaching at the reform school known as the Indiana House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders in Hendricks County, Ind., wrote it – apparently – for his wife (who was, however, named Jennie). It's in the form of an %22answer%22 to a popular ballad of the time, %22Barney, Take Me Home Again,%22 composed by Westendorf’s close friend, George W. Brown, writing under the nom de plume of George W. Persley.
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