Winner was a well known po­et, com­pos­er and vi­o­lin­ist. A self taught mu­si­cian, he al­so ran a mu­sic store, gave les­sons on var­i­ous in­stru­ments, and played in the Phil­a­del­phia Brass Band and Ce­ci­lian Mu­sic­al So­ci­ety. He wrote or ed­it­ed over 200 vol­umes of music, for more than 20 in­stru­ments, and pro­duced 2,000 ar­range­ments for vi­o­lin and pi­a­no. He wrote the song List­en to the Mock­ing Bird, but sold the rights to it for the grand sum of five dol­lars; in the next few years, it sold 20,000,000 co­pies. His other songs in­clude:

• Aunt Jemima's Plaster
• Days Gone By
• Der Dietcher’s Dog
• Dreaming of the Loved Ones
• Farewell Song of Enoch Arden
• Give Us Back Our Old Commander
• How Sweet Are the Roses
• Just as of Old
• Lost Isabel
• Love Once Gone, Is Gone Forever
• Our Good Old Friends
• Pet of the Cradle
• Side by Side
• Song of the Farmers
• Ten Little Injuns
• The Love of One Fond Heart
• What Care I
• What Is Home Without a Mother?
• Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
• Wherefore
• Yes, I Would the War Were Over

Sources

Hymns

1. Whispering Hope