Altered Days

DESCRIPTION: "When to New Zealand first I cam', Poor and duddy, poor and duddy... It was a happy day, Sirs." At home, he was hungry and ill-clothed, and the landlord was after him. "But now it's altered days"; there is plenty to eat and he doesn't even have to work
AUTHOR: John Barr (source: Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry; Sinclair)
EARLIEST DATE: 1861 (Barr, Poems and Songs, according to Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
KEYWORDS: emigration New Zealand poverty hardtimes
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 24, "Altered Days" (1 text, 1 tune) (p. 14 in the 1972 edition)
ADDITIONAL: Keith Sinclair, _A History of New Zealand_, 1959, 1969, 1991 (I use the 1991 Penguin paperback edition), pp. 96-97, "(no title)" (1 excerpt)
RECORDINGS:
Barbie and Neil Colquhoun, "Altered Days" (on NZSongYngCntry)
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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