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Thread #144188 Message #3791383
Posted By: GUEST
20-May-16 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ye Old Sunday Dinner
Subject: RE: Origins: Ye Old Sunday Dinner
It is not a Newfoundland song but Irish!!!
THE OLD SUNDAY DINNER. Copyright, 1889, by M. Witmark & Sons. Words and Music by John Carroll.
A sweet vagrant fancy of days long departed Carries me back to my home like a dream; When I was a boy, oh, so wild and light-hearted. And cares came and went like a merry sunbeam. There's always a thought like a last dying ember, Tis all that remains of the logs merry glow; Like something I know, I will ever remember The old Sunday dinner a long time ago.
Chorus. The table was set with the best we could boast of, The bread was as light as the first fall of snow; We had plenty for twenty, and we made the most of That old Sunday dinner a long time ago.
When Saturday night came my father and mother Would both go to market, but not to stop long; They'd tell us be good and to mind your big brother, We'd listen while he sang us some childish song. And when they'd return with the basked o'erflowing, We'd each get an apple, then wanted to know What we'd have for dinner, while hints they'd be throwing Of the old Sunday dinner a long time ago'-Chorus.