Foreign Children

DESCRIPTION: "Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me?" The singer describes "normal" life and thinks those others would be happier to live his life
AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
EARLIEST DATE: 1885 (A Child's Garden of Verses)
KEYWORDS: Indians(Am.) food home
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 176, "Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow" (1 fragment)
Roud #25467
NOTES [56 words]: It probably goes without saying, but the premise of this song is wrong; those foreign children were just as used to their ways as we are to ours. E.g. the Inuit, when exposed to British food, preferred to continue eating the blubber that the English so despised. And those foreigners didn't call themselves Sioux or Eskimo, either. - RBW
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