Think of Your Head in the Morning

DESCRIPTION: "Tom Jennings who never could drinking avoid, Though vows he was always making," is warned by his wife, "Think, think, think, think, Think of your head in the morning." He goes out, gets drunk, is found on the ground by police, finally makes it home
AUTHOR: Charlie L. Ward (source: sheet music published by B. Duncan & Co.)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (We-Parted-By-the-River-Side-Songster)
KEYWORDS: husband wife drink warning police
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
We-Parted-By-the-River-Side-Songster, p. 10, "Think of Your Head in the Morning" (1 text)
Roud #12892
SAME TUNE:
Love, Pig's-feet and Suicide ("One Timothy Strong was a gay young man, Yet he was a sort of a joker, He was known as 'My Uncle,' his sign was 'three balls," His business was a pawnbroke") (Keen-Love-Among-Der-Sweitzer-Songster, p. 48).
NOTES [62 words]: The sheet music of his says it is "Respectfully dedicated to all the COMMISSARIES, QUARTERMASTERS, and SURGEONS in the Confederate Army." It was published by a Columbia, South Carolina publisher. No date is listed, but given how rare almost everything, including paper, was in the last years of the Confederacy, I have to think it is from 1862 or (at the latest) 1863. - RBW
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