Please Mama Stay Home With Me

DESCRIPTION: "A mother went out to a party, She left at home her dear son" even though he repeatedly said, "Please, Mama, please stay home with me." She eventually comes home to find her baby sick; the doctor can do nothing and the baby dies
AUTHOR: credited to Eddy Arnold / J. Graydon Hall / Wallace Fowler by secondhandsongs.com
EARLIEST DATE: 1945 (recording, Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys)
KEYWORDS: mother children death doctor drink warning party
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Roberts/Agey-InThePine #122, "A Mother Went Out on a Party" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, MOMMY*
Roud #26983
RECORDINGS:
Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys, "Mommy Please Stay Home with Me" (Bluebird 33-0520-A, 1945; recorded 1944)
NOTES [73 words]: Although this song clearly puts the blame for the baby's death on the mother, and today we would assuredly blame her for leaving her child at home unprotected, it is most unlikely that the mother could have saved the child by staying home; if the poor boy died that quickly, he was already sick by the time the mother left. I'd file this under "bogus tear-jerkers," not because it isn't pathetic but because it isn't at all probable. - RBW
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File: RAInP122

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