Tramp on the Street

DESCRIPTION: ""Only a tramp, was Lazarus's sad fate, He who lad down at the rich man's gate.... They left him to die like a tramp on the street." "He was some mother's darling... Once he was fair and once he was young." Hearers should care for the poor.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cray-AshGrove)
KEYWORDS: religious poverty punishment Hell hobo
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cray-AshGrove, p. 41, "Only a Tramp" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #17691
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Dives and Lazarus" [Child 56] (subject) and references there
NOTES [112 words]: Jesus's story of the rich man and Lazarus -- which, be it noted, was a warning, not a description of an actual event -- is found in Luke 16:19-31 (the Lazarus of John 11, 12 is unrelated).
Derek Piotr had two items he listed under the title "Tramp on the street": Frances Turbyfill (Campbell), "Tramp on the Street" (Piotr-Archive #148, recorded 04/25/2022) and Amy Michels, "Tramp on the Street" (Piotr-Archive #169, recorded 05/10/2022). Odds are that both are this. But neither is actually a recording of a song; both consist of this one line and a lot of hemming and hawing. This is not enough to establish identity, so I have not listed them among the recording. - RBW
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File: CrAGr41

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