Don't Send Me Home

DESCRIPTION: "Give me time, lots of time, in the COF Command, Don't send me home. Let me stay, far away, from the country that I love, Don't send me home. Let me stay in this land, on a long vacation... No, MacKenzie, don't send me home. (Just kidding.)"
AUTHOR: unknown (tune "Don't Fence Me In by Cole Porter, 1944)
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
KEYWORDS: home derivative soldier homesickness hardtimes exile
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 78, "Don't Send Me Home" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #29410
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Don't Fence Me In" (tune)
cf. "Alliford Bay" (tune)
File: Hopk078A

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