Remember Me When Far Away

DESCRIPTION: "Remember me when far away And only half awake, Remember me on your wedding day And send me a slice of cake."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (J. S. Ogilvie, "One Thousand Popular Quotations... Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums")
KEYWORDS: food wedding nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 123-124, "(Remember Me When Far Away)" (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 121, "(Dear friend, remember me when far away"); p. 129, "(Remember me when far far off)" (2 texts; the first line also occurs on p. 131)
ADDITIONAL: J. S. Ogilvie, _One Thousand Popular Quotations Comprising the Choicest Thoughts and Sayings of Eminent Writers of All Ages, Together With Nearly Three Hundred Original and Choice Selections, Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums_, J. S. Ogivie, Publisher (New York & Chicago), 1884 (available on Google Books), p. 50 of Part II, "Remember Me When Far Away" (1 text)
NOTES [152 words]: This is one of many items Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore extracted from the autograph album of George Washington Franklin, which he maintained 1882 to 1895 or after. The first Solomon-ZickaryZan's version is also from an autograph album, that of Minnie Burton, from 1891-1896, the second from an autograph album from the family of Kate, Ella, Lucy, Maggie, and Bessie Burton, compiled 1895-1905.
Web searches for this quote turned up more than a dozen versions of this, one of which even showed up in a national news story (which was the chief source of hits). Since this is clearly a parody, it must have been in oral tradition, though I cannot prove that it is a song.
To the Ogilvie text, compare also a text on p. 58 of part II of Ogilvie: "Remember me when far, far of, Where the woodchucks die of the whooping cough." The woodchuck reference is also found in the version on p. 129 of Solomon-ZickaryZan. - RBW
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