Folly of Finery, The

DESCRIPTION: "Clean hands and clean faces and neatly combed hair ,And garments made decent and plain, Are better than all the fine things they/we (can) wear, That make us look vulgar and vain"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1840 (A Selection of Hymns and Poetry for the Use of Infant Schools and Nurseries, Second Edition, Part II, #113)
KEYWORDS: clothes hair
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 108, "Clean hands and clean faces and neatly combed hair" (1 fragment)
Roud #25518
File: KSUC108E

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