Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow

DESCRIPTION: The child regularly brings her cat to school because, she explains, "Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow." She intends to do as she "'likes'" when she gets old, and have a parrot and children.
AUTHOR: Joseph Tabrar
EARLIEST DATE: 1927
KEYWORDS: animal dog children
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Spaeth-WeepSomeMoreMyLady, pp. 258-259, "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13973
NOTES [127 words]: It's songs like this that make me wish we had a keyword "stupid." But the piece proved much more popular than it deserved, so here it is.
Peter Davison, Songs of the British Music Hall, Oak Publications, 1971, p. 40, reports, "According to Chance Newton and Christopher Pulling, [George] Tabrar was the author of thousands, literally shousands, of songs. He wrote George Leybourne's last song, 'Ting, Ting, That's How The Bell Goes,' and was still writing songs and putting on shows fifty years later, well after the First Greaet War. His most famous song... was Vesta Victoria's 'Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow." Apparently his son also wrote songs. But they are mostly silly, and rarely very melodic, and have been almost completely forgotten. Deservedly. - RBW
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