In the Days when I Was Hard Up

DESCRIPTION: The singer recalls how difficult life was when he faced poverty. He was scorned by family, and forced to all sorts of tricks to keep alive. He barely overcame the temptation to steal. His consolation was that he wore his ragged clothes honestly.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1860 (Dime-Song-Book #5)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(MA,SE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Cazden/Haufrecht/Studer-FolkSongsOfTheCatskills 99, "In the Days when I Was Hard Up" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1035, p. 71, "In the Days When I Was Hard Up" (3 references)
Dime-Song-Book #5/72, p. 66 and #5/64, p 53, "In the Days when I was Hard Up" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Paul Robertson, "Ballads & Bytes: The Digitally Reproduced Folksong Collections of Dr. I. G. Greer and Dr. W. Amos Abrams" Vol. LV, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 2008), pp. 60-61, "Hard Up" (1 short text)
ST FSC099 (Partial)
Roud #4621
File: FSC099

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