I Never Had a Piece of Bread

DESCRIPTION: "I never had a piece of bread, Particularly big and wide, But what it fell, And always on the buttered side."
AUTHOR: James Payn (source: Wikipedia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (published by Payn, according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: food | buttered side down
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Frances Boshears, "Granddaddy Roberts," Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 1953), p. 154, "(I never had a piece of bread" (1 text)
File: MWF3154A

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