“Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week”

Description

Singer describes all the things his friend has bought on credit, including clothes, car, marriage, and a child; finally the man's wife, saying "these weekly payments are killing me," divorces him, and the alimony is a dollar down, a dollar a week.

Notes

And this was before Visa cards even existed.... - RBW

Cross references

• cf. "Cotton Mill Colic" (theme)

Recordings

• Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (Conqueror 7887, 1931)
• Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, "A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (on Struggle2)

References

1. Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 79, "Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. BI, CSW079