You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

DESCRIPTION: Singer, now feeble, tells his sweetheart she'll miss him when he's gone. He asks who will care for her. He tells her to fence their garden; the children are married. Ch.: "You'll miss me when I'm gone...There's one kind heart will miss me when I'm gone"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1930 (recording, Oaks Family)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Singer, aging and becoming feeble, tells his sweetheart she'll miss him when he's gone. He asks what she will do in wintertime, who will put their arms about her, who will share her sadness and gladness. He tells her to fence their little garden and tend the flowers; the children are all married. Ch.: "You'll miss me when I'm gone...There's one kind heart will miss me when I'm gone"
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness love marriage death family husband wife age
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
Roud #17225
RECORDINGS:
Oaks Family, "You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone" (Bluebird B-5807, 1935; rec. 1930; on KMM)
NOTES [21 words]: In 1878 Hart Pease Danks and Arthur W. French published a song called, "You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone." This is not that song. - PJS
File: RcYMMWIG

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