Side By Side (Dismantled Bride Parody)

DESCRIPTION: "We got married on, Sunday... And when the guests had gone home, We were all alone, Side by side." The wife takes off, hair, etc. "For most of my wife had departed, So I slept on the chair, There was more of her there, Side by Side."
AUTHOR: unknown (based on the song by Harry Wood)
EARLIEST DATE: 1984 (sundry pop-folk recordings)
KEYWORDS: humorous parody marriage wife
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 177, "Side by Side (1 text, tune referenced)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Side by Side (dismantled bride parody)
DT, UNFORTU4
Roud #12788
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Side By Side" (tune)
cf. "The Warranty Deed (The Wealthy Old Maid)" [Laws H24] and references there
File: MSMHSbSP

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