“As I Staggered From Home Yesterday Morning”

Description

As singer staggers out, his wife (counting up his meager cash) tells him their life would be better if he quit drinking -- they'd soon be "rich as a Jew." He tells her that drink does him a world of good, and he intends to continue

Notes

Both [Pat Ford] recordings contain the same fragment, but are different takes. - PJS

Recordings

  • Pat Ford, "As I staggered from home yesterday morning" [fragment] (AFS 4210 B3 & 4211 B3, 1939; in AMMEM/Cowell)

References

  1. Roud #15472
  2. BI, RcAISFHY

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1939 (recording, Pat Ford)
Keywords: drink wife
Found in: US(MW)