Low-Backed Car, The

DESCRIPTION: "It's onward we travel through life's weary journey Our thoughts oft returns to the bright days of yore, To the scenes of our childhood" in and around St John's. Some day good times will return and we will go back to "be happy by the old low-backed car"
AUTHOR: (credited to T. J. Greene by Michael P. Murphy)
EARLIEST DATE: 1904 (Murphy, Old Colony Song Book)
KEYWORDS: homesickness emigration hardtimes lament lyric
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 120, "The Low-Backed Car" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: James Murphy, compiler/publisher, "(Old Colony Song Book: Newfoundland)," James Murphy, 1904 (available from the Memorial University of Newfoundland web site; the cover is missing, but I suspect it is a copy of "Songs of Our Land"), p. 52, "The Old Low-Back-Car" (1 text)
Michael P. Murphy, _Pathways through Yesterday_, edited by Gerald S. Moore, Town Crier Publishing, 1976, p. 152, "(no title) (1 verse only, but with a description of the author and his situation)
Roud #17751
NOTES [66 words]: Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland notes that "This is a song about a boy who grew up in St John's but was forced to leave Newfoundland when economic conditions prevented him from getting a living there ... The low-backed car marked a street in St John's" - BS
Note that there is no connection, save the title, between this and the song we have indexed as "The Low Back Car." - RBW
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