Silver Dollar (A Man Without a Woman)

DESCRIPTION: "A man without a woman is like a ship without a sail, Is like boat without a rudder... But the saddest thing... is a woman without a man." "Now you can roll a silver collar cross the bar-room floor" but a woman won't miss her man until he is gone
AUTHOR: Jack Palmer and Clarke Van Ness? (sheet music found on YouTube)
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Harbin-Parodology) internet sources, without documentation, say it was written in 1907
KEYWORDS: love courting separation drink nonballad
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 76, "Man Without a Woman" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Harbin-Parodology, #26, p. 14, "A Man Without a Woman" (1 short text)
Roud #11405
NOTES [43 words]: Apparently this was recorded by Bobby Darin in 1965, but this isn't responsible for it being in tradition; note that Harbin-Parodology printed it, and Browne collected it, before that. Browne suggested that his informant may have learned it in college. - RBW
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