Old Dash

DESCRIPTION: "The bairns will miss you when you're dead, They'll mark the place where rests your head. And down their cheeks the crystal bead Will sure distill." "You've had your time and you must go." "But dogs and men must yield to fate."
AUTHOR: Words: John Barr (source: Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
EARLIEST DATE: 2010 (Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry; most Barr poems were published in "Poems and songs" in 1861)
KEYWORDS: death children dog
FOUND IN: New Zealand
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 34, "Old Dash" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [74 words]: According to Gordon McLauchlan, editor-in-chief, New Zealand Encyclopedia, David Bateman Limited, 1984, p. 46, "BARR, John (1809-89) was born in Paisley, Scotland and emigrated to N[ew] Z[ealand] in 1852, settling in Dunedin. He became a well-known poet and songwriter, contributing to the Otago Witness and Saturday Advertiser. His Poems and Songs was published in 1861 and revised and reissued in 1874. He inaugurated the Burns Club. - RBW
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