Take Me Up Tenderly

DESCRIPTION: "Take me up tenderly, Show me the big city, Far from the mountains...." The singer rejects the rain and snow and mountains and says he will work in his mother's garden. "Thus sang the tramping man, Rattling his frying pan...."
AUTHOR: Words: H. W. Gretton
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1938, according to Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook
KEYWORDS: rambling home work gardening
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook, pp. 14-16, "Take Me Up Tenderly" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Clev014

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