You'll Never Know What Time Will Bring

DESCRIPTION: "A poor old man of seventy and his wife of sixty three" are on their way to the workhouse in the snow. They meet their rich son who has no time for them. They warn him that "you never know what time will bring you"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA/Leach)
KEYWORDS: age hardheartedness poverty warning ordeal father mother
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South)) Canada(Newf)
Roud #13679
RECORDINGS:
Wiggy Smith, "Hobbling Off to the Workhouse Door" (on "Band of Gold," Musical Traditions Records MTCD307 CD (2007))
Ann(e) Whalen, "You'll Never Know What Time Will Bring" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Over the Hills at the Poorhouse" (theme of old people abandoned in poverty)
File: RcYNKWTW

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