If I'd As Much Money As I Could Spend

DESCRIPTION: "If I'd as much money as I could spend, I never would cry, 'Old chairs to mend.'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1810 (Gammer Gurton's Garland)
KEYWORDS: commerce derivative
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 88, "If I'd as much money as I could spend" (1 text)
Roud #1335
NOTES [23 words]: Roud lumps this with "Chairs tp Men," which clearly inspired it, but I am not convinced they are of common origin, so I've split them. - RBW
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File: KSUC088B

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