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AKA<\/strong><\/td>Daddy’s gone to New York<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1895<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Tom Browne \/ Felix McGlennon<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN25353<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Katie Lawrence<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Kane, Alice; N Ireland : Belfast; no date<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From the 1896 (US) sheet music:\n\nOn the road to New York tramp'd a poor, hard-working man;\nLong he fought misfortune, as but good men only can:\nhis darling wife and little ones he'd left, in grief, behind,\nBut thro' his weary trudging they were ever In his mind.\nWhen they miss'd their Dada And they saw their Mamma's tears,\n\"Mamma, what you crying for?\" would ask the Little dears;\n\"Why is Daddy not at home? Oh! has he gone away?\"\nTrying, through her tears, to cheer her darlings, she would say:\n\nDaddy's gone to New York, where the streets are paved with gold;\nDaddy's gone to New York, where the poor are never cold:\nThere's dolls and toys for the girls and boys, and as for baby Jack,\nHe shall have a hubby horse when Dad comes back.<\/em>\n\nHungry, worn, and footsore, came the Dad to New York town;\nNo one would employ him, he was weak and broken down;\nFor thousands there were starving, seeking work the same as he;\nAnd but for those he left behind, he'd end his misery.\nThose at home were starving too, the cupboard grew more bare,\nVainly cried the children for a crust, but none was there.\nLittle things went, one by one, a scant meal to provide.\nStill, although heart-broken, to her babes the mother cried:-\n\nEvery heart is not of stone, the poor assist the poor:\nFainting fell the man, one night, outside a cottage door;\nBut quickly was he carried in, they guessed his story sad.\nAnd brought him to, and made him share, not much, but all they had.\nMany can help one, and soon the humble hat went 'round,\nNobler hearts than New York's poor, don't dwell on Yankee ground.\nHe got work, and now his home's us bright as day is long;\nHappy mother, happy children, now join in the song\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
First published as Daddy’s gone to London <\/em>in 1895, Katie Lawrence<\/a>‘s hit song was republished in the US a year later as Daddy’s gone to New York. <\/em>The music was composed by Felix McGlennon<\/a>, a songwriter who always had an eye both on the British and American markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later collected from the singing of Alice Kane (1908-2003), a song she learnt in her Ulster childhood.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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