Mother Would Comfort Me

DESCRIPTION: "Wounded and sorrowful, far from my home, Sick, among stranger, uncared for, alone... No one but mother can cheer me today... Mother would comfort me if she were here." He would forget his pain were she here. "Mother's affection is ever the same"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (ShillingSongBook3)
KEYWORDS: mother disease injury
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
ShillingSongBook3, p. 53, "Mother Would Comfort Me" (1 text)
HooleysBlackStarSongster, pp. 24-25, "Mother Would Comfort Me" (1 text)

Roud #38079
File: ShS3053

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