In Our Grandfathers' Days

DESCRIPTION: "A song now to please all my kind friends before me... I'm going to sing of our grandfather's days. In our grandfathers' days men were judged by merit...." Now money settles things. Clothes weren't so fancy, people gambled less, politicians were good men
AUTHOR: Tony Pastor (source: New-Comic-Songster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1866 (Dime-Song-Book #17)
KEYWORDS: nonballad hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #185, "In Our Grandfather's Days" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #17, pp. 52-53, "Our Grandfather's Days" (1 text); #34, p. 62, "Our Grandfather's Days" (1 text)
New-Comic-Songster, "Our Grandfathers' Days" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10924
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve" (theme) and references there
File: Hubb185

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