Ten Cents at the Gate

DESCRIPTION: "There is a land that is fairer than day" to which you can gain entrance by paying "ten cents at the bar." There is no admission to the camp meeting for the poor except by paying their dime -- except for the "rowdies" who "climbed over the wall."
AUTHOR: Words: John Q. Dyce (source: Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
EARLIEST DATE: 1885 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: parody religious humorous money clothes
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 106-107, "Ten Cents at the Gate" (1 text) (p. 85 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #7651
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sweet By and By" (source of parody)
NOTES [37 words]: Roud lums this with "Sweet By and By," from which it was patently derived -- but this is clearly a deliberate parody, satirizing camp meetings that charge admission to gain salvation; I would consider it a different song. - RBW
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