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Sheet music for the popular parlour song That Old-Fashioned Mother Of Mine, is presented free with today's edition of the weekly publication Horner's Stories in the UK. The song is composed by composed by lyricist Worton David and prolific composer Horatio Nicholls. Under his real name, Lawrence Wright, he had over 600 songs published, founded Melody Maker magazine in 1926 and won an Ivor Novello Award in 1962 for his Outstanding Contribution to British Popular Music.