Side by Side

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money, Maybe we're ragged and funny, But we travel along, singing a song, Side by side." They can't predict the future, but the couple will continue together
AUTHOR: Harry M. Wooda (source: Gardner)
EARLIEST DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: love money clothes travel
FOUND IN:
Roud #27087
RECORDINGS:
Judy Cook, Dennis Cook, "Ain't Got a Barrel of Money" (Piotr-Archive #603, recorded 06/08/2023)
Dan Gardella, Fran Block, "Side by Side" (Piotr-Archive #529, recorded 03/09/2023)
NOTES [60 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 365, estimates that this was the fifteenth most popular song in America in 1909, peaking at #3 in August of the year (the #1 song that year being something by the name of "Charmaine"). It had another peak in April 1953. - RBW
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