Wine in the Cup

DESCRIPTION: "Dark is the night and the eyes of the father Sadly peer though the fast-falling gloom," looking out as "his darling Staggers home from the cursed saloon." Drink draws men "to a winebibber's grae." Mother is dying in poverty with her ragged child
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore)
KEYWORDS: drink father mother children death
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 129-130, "Wine in the Cup" (1 text)
NOTES [48 words]: This has so many cliches in it that it's hard to believe it hasn't been indexed somewhere else, but I can't find it. I rather suspect it is a composite. It does have one unusual feature: In this piece, the father is "clean" and the mother is the drunk rather than the other way around. - RBW
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File: SaKo129A

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