Little Bare-foot

DESCRIPTION: "Standing where the bleak wins whistled Round her small and fragile form... Hundreds passing by unheeding... There with bare feet cold and bleeing,.. cried, "Mister, please give me a penny, For I've not got any pa.'" She dies begging bread for mother
AUTHOR: Frank Howard (source: Wolf-AmericanSongSheets)
EARLIEST DATE: 1868 (Mabel-Waltz-Songster)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes clothes mother orphan death begging
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Mabel-Waltz-Songster, pp. 46-47, "Little Bare-Foot" (1 text)
Waiting-for-a-Broadway-Stage-Songster, pp. 15-16, "Little Bare-Foot" (1 text)
Chapman-Sisters-Songster, pp. 44-45, "Little Bare-Foot" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1279, p. 87, "Little Bare-Foot" (1 reference)
Roud #17627
NOTES [39 words]: Many of the copies of this state that it was sung by "Miss Maggie Mitchell in the popular Drama Little Bare-Foot." I know nothing about the drama, but this is one of the more effective pieces of the orphan-begging-for-bread genre. - RBW
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