Your Aged Mother and Me

DESCRIPTION: "The home was so bright and so cheery within, When outside in the cold by the door, Stood a poor aged couple...." They come from the workhouse, and beg their son to take them in: "Don't be unkind to us now we are old"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk)
KEYWORDS: mother father home hardtimes age
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Howson-SongsSunginSuffolk, #73, "Your Aged Mother and Me" (1 text)
Roud #10716
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Over the Hills to the Poor-House" (theme)
File: Hows073

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