Pedlar (III), The (Russian)

DESCRIPTION: Russian. "Down the road my whole day long With my pack of goods for dame or maid... Oh, the weight on my aching shoulders, But to live a man must trade." A lady cannot afford his lace; he gives it to her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (SongsOfManyNations)
KEYWORDS: commerce travel work money clothes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
SongsOfManyNations, "The Pedlar" (1 text, 1 tune) (CC edition, p. 41)
NOTES [49 words]: Not, as far as I know, an English folk song (though they taught it to us in elementary school -- and I've remembered it for fifty years because of the excellent melody). But the melody was used as the theme for the game "Tetris," so a lot of people have hummed it without knowing the lyrics. - RBW
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