There'll Come a Time

DESCRIPTION: "Why are you sad, Papa, my darling? Why are those tears falling down?" The father calls the child "an angel," but he is afraid of what happens when he is dead: "There'll come a time someday When I have passed away" and the child will be unprotected
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1966 (Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol1)
KEYWORDS: father mother children death
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol1, pp. 62-63, "There'll Come a Time" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7125
NOTES [53 words]: This seems to have been very popular with a particular sort of conservative, hyper-controlling parent. Not many young performers seem to have sung it. Hm.
Shelton Brooks, the author of "Darktown Strutters' Ball," composed a song "There'll Come a Time" that was a modest hit in 1911. It appears to be a sepapate song. - RBW
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