“There's No One Like the Old Folks”
Description
A father tells his wandering boy not to go away, saying, "There's no one like the old folks after all...but your dad and mother too / Will always stand by you..." But the boy goes away, never to return, while his father grieves
Notes
There *must* be a broadside or sheet music for this someplace, but I haven't found it yet. - PJS
Recordings
- [Leonard] Rutherford & [John] Foster, "There's No One Like the Old Folks" (prob. Brunswick, c. 1930; on KMM)
- Frank Stanley, "There's No One Like the Old Folks" (Manhattan 208, c. 1906; Columbia A-314, 1909)
References
- Roud #17222 and 11512
- BI, RcTNOLOF