As Sure As Comes Your Wedding Day

DESCRIPTION: "As sure as comes your wedding day, A broom to you I'll send; In sunshine use the brushy part, In storm the other end."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (J. S. Ogilvie, "One Thousand Popular Quotations... Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums")
KEYWORDS: wedding nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 135, "(As shure as comes your wedding day)" (1 text)
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 122, "(As sure as comes your wedding day)" (1 text)
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. 117 of Part II, "As Sure As Comes Your Wedding Day" (1 text)
NOTES [86 words]: This is one of several items Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore extracted from the autograph album of Anna Duncan, which she maintained 1897-1899 or after. Solomon-ZickaryZan's version is also from an autograph album, that of Minnie Burton, from 1891-1896.
Web searches for this quote turned up more than a dozen versions of this, although few were properly attributed; several were from autograph books. There were enough of them that I decided the piece is probably traditional in some sense, although hardly a song. - RBW
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File: SaKo135A

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