Rise Out Your Bed

DESCRIPTION: The wife demands, "Rise out your bed, you worthless wretch, the sun's far in the sky." She has been working while he recovers from drink. They fight and argue -- until Craigilie comes by, when they declare the husband to be well
AUTHOR: Words: John Barr? (source: Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
EARLIEST DATE: 1861 (Barr, Poems and Songs)
KEYWORDS: husband wife drink fight trick
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 27, "Rise Out Your Bed" (1 text, 1 tune) (p. 18 in the 1972 edition)
RECORDINGS:
Barbie and Neil Colquhoun, "Rise Out Your Bed" (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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