Who Is My Neighbor?

DESCRIPTION: "'Who is my neighbor?' Hear the poor Jew cry. 'Who will a-yescort me? Help me ere I die.'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: religious Jew
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 60, "Who is my Neighbor?" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 60, "Who Is My Neighbor?" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Roud #7845
NOTES [32 words]: The editors of Brown do not seem to have noted the connection with the parable of the Good Samaritan, but it seems to me nearly certain that this is an excerpt from a song about that story. - RBW
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File: Br3060

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