Mother, Don't You Cry

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, well I can remember now, When but a little boy, The fond caresses I received, I was my mother's joy," but he turned criminal, and "I am transported now, But, mother, don't you cry." Finally he received news of liberty
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland); Anderson estimates his broadside is from c. 1840
KEYWORDS: separation mother exile transportation reprieve
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 43-44, "Mother, Don't You Cry" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 180, "Mother, Don't You Cry" (1 text, with a tune on p. 564)
Roud #V2969
File: AnFa043

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