They Won't Know I'm From the Country

DESCRIPTION: "I've lived in the country all my life, And I ain't got a kid nor a wife." Now he is going to London, "But they won't know I comes from the country, No, their little game I'll spoil." He'll visit the Tower, and Picadilly Circus, and get away with it
AUTHOR: Fred W. Leigh (source: Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (source: Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
KEYWORDS: travel trick home
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #72, "They Won't Know I Come from the Country" (1 text)
Roud #10715
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I'm a Young Man from the Country" (theme)
File: Hows072

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