Complaints

DESCRIPTION: "There never can so strange a time as this appear." Everything seems "very queer"; the singer doesn't know if he is himself. He's had "gout, asthma, and lumbager," and dozens of other complaints. "All these affairs have caused me" to suffer even more
AUTHOR: Edward Terry (source: Russells-GooseAndIngunsSongster)
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Russells-GooseAndIngunsSongster)
KEYWORDS: disease humorous | hypochondria
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Russells-GooseAndIngunsSongster, pp. 28-29, "Complaints" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pastor-DownInACoalMineSongster, pp. 15-16, "Complaints" (1 text)
Howes-GreatLondonFemaleMinstrelSongster, pp. 16-17, "Complaints" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #37262
File: RGAI028

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