Pity Poor Labourers

DESCRIPTION: "You sons of old England, now listen... Concerning poor lab'rers we all must allow Who work all day at the tail of the plow. Oh, pity poor lab'rers, oh, pity them all, For five or six shillings they work the whole week." The complaints of poor workers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: Before 1855 (Bodleian broadside Harding B 11(2682))
KEYWORDS: poverty work
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Fahey-Eureka-SongsThatMadeAustralia, pp. 18-19, "Pity Poor Labourers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Palmer-ThePainfulPlow, #7, "Pity Poor Labourers" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 419, "The Poor Labourers" (1 text, with a tune on p. 600)
Roud #V8898
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2682), "A New Song: Pity Poor Labourer's" (sic.), E. M. A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; also Firth b.25(399)=Firth c.16(300)=Johnson Ballads 3356, "The Poor Labourers," G Henson (Northampton), n.d.
File: FaE018

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