Mother, Dad, and Joe

DESCRIPTION: "I'd like to go back home again, To Mother, Dad, and Joe, And simply loaf around a while 'Mid scenes of long ago." Life is too busy now; the singer wishes he were with his family, old Rover, and the rag doll Joe. There, he could sleep peacefully
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: home mother father dog
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 265-266, "Mother, Dad, and Joe" (1 text)
Roud #14080
File: Shoe265

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