I'm Lonesome Since My Mother Died

DESCRIPTION: Mother dies and father remarries. My stepmother "beat me and she turned me out When I speaks of my mother dear." "If I could only call her back, Once more to sit down by her side, I would like her better than before; I'm lonesome since my mother died."
AUTHOR: Henry S. Thompson (1863) (source: Guigné-ForgottenSongsOfTheNewfoundlandOutports)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Sweet-Genevieve-Songster)
KEYWORDS: grief death mourning lament mother stepmother youth
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf) US(Ro)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 181, "I'm Lonesome Since My Mother Died" (1 text)
Guigné-ForgottenSongsOfTheNewfoundlandOutports, pp. 239-240, "Lonely Since My Mother Died" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #94, "I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died" (1 text, which does not mention the father's remarriage)
Sweet-Genevieve-Songster, p. 32, "I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died" (1 text, which does not mention the father's remarriage)
ShillingSongBook3, p. 39, "I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died" (1 text)
HooleysHighDaddySongster, pp. 64-65, "I'm Lonely SInce My Mother Died" (1 text)
Roud #6361
RECORDINGS:
Rebecca Bennett, "Lonely Since My Mother Died" (on NFAGuigné01)
Mrs. August Molloy, "I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
NOTES [62 words]: All the songs here are lumped under Roud #6361. I wonder, though, if there might not be two different pieces, "I'm Lonely Since My Mother Died," popular in nineteenth century songsters, in which there is no mention of a brutal stepmother, and "I'm Lonesome Since My Mother Died," which introduces the stepmother. It's hard to split them with such similar lyrics, though. - RBW
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