Home, Sweet Home (Parody)

DESCRIPTION: "When you're having heaps of fun and getting full of beer, There's no place like home. When your feet get tangled up and you walk on your ear, There's no place like home." It's a place to fall down drunk, to suffer when others visit, to regret your wife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric)
KEYWORDS: derivative hardtimes humorous drink baby wife injury
FOUND IN: US(MW,SE,So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 152, "Parody of 'Home, Sweet Home'" (1 text)
Warner-FolkSongsAndBalladsOfTheEasternSeaboard, p. 21, "There's No Place Like Home Parody" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 149-150, "There's No Place Like Home" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #4896 and 11351
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Brisk Young Bachelor (I)" (theme)
NOTES [38 words]: These are not really all the same parody, but they all share a common sort of idea: When something miserable happens to you, there is no place like home. Such songs will inevitably cross-fertilize, so I'm lumping them here. - RBW
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File: Brne152

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