When These Old Clothes Were New

DESCRIPTION: "Eight years ago, I looked a swell, sires, With walking cane, and purse as long." But then he married, and that was expensive. The singer lists his old clothers. Now a pauper; "I must die in the city prison In clothes I hate though perhaps quite new"
AUTHOR: Fred Perry and Fred French (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (FolkSongAndMusicHall), but probably in existence by 1858
KEYWORDS: clothes hardtimes marriage prison
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
GusWilliamsLeedleGermanBandSongster, p. 43, "When These Old Clothes Were New" (1 text)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "When these old clothes were new!"
Roud #36722
File: GWLG043

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