{"id":28102,"date":"2025-08-30T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=28102"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:44:29","slug":"shes-more-to-be-pitied-than-censured-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/shes-more-to-be-pitied-than-censured-2\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s more to be pitied than censured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First Published<\/td>1898<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>William B. Gray<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN15477<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Burt Shepard<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Kenny, Jack ; Canada : Ontario ; 1971
Pack, Loye ; USA; no date
Blackburn, Sam ; USA : California : 1939
Woodward, Happy Jack ; USA : Michigan : 1938
Tipton, Mrs. Otis ; USA : Tennessee : 1930\/31
Ling, George ; England : Surrey ; 1971
Robinson, Tommy ; England : Yorkshire : 1972
Smith, Ruth ; USA : Maryland : 1929
French, Seann ; Ireland ; Co. Wexford : 1992
Richardson, Samuel B. ; USA : Delaware : 1941
Shaw, Mary ; USA : California : 1963
Sutton, Albert ; USA : West Virginia : 1939

Modern performances<\/strong>
The Stanley Brothers, Julie Andrews, The Grateful Dead<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SHE'S MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED

At the old concert hall on the Bowery,
'Round a table were seated one night,
A crowd of young fellows carousing
With them life seemed cheerful and bright.
At the very next table was seated
A girl who had fallen to shame,
All the young fellows jeered at her weakness,
Till they heard an old woman explain:

She is more to be pitied than censured,
She is more to be helped than despised.
She is only a lassie who ventured
On life's stormy path, ill-advised;
Do not scorn her with words fierce and bitter
Do not laugh at her shame and downfall.<\/em>

There's an old-fashioned church 'round the corner
Where the neighbors all gathered one day,
While the parson was preaching a sermon
O'ere a soul that had just passed away;
'Twas this same wayward girl from the Bow'ry
Who a life of adventure had led.
Did the clergyman jeer at her downfall?
No! He asked for God's mercy, and said:

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A sentimental American song from the late 1890s which was also a hit in the British Halls for Burt Shepard. It has been collected from traditional singers in England, Ireland and America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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