The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173791   Message #4215176
Posted By: Helen
11-Jan-25 - 11:45 PM
Thread Name: Title & Singer of 1950s Song
Subject: RE: Title & Singer of 1950s Song
There are probably various versions of it. Identifying the song is tantalisingly out of reach. I suspect the song which mentions an old woman who is neglected might be a variation of this song, or maybe it is the other way around.

My internet search trick is to put double quotes around a phrase I am searching for, e.g. "She sits all day in an old rocking chair" and then I try a few less words in the phrase, or another phrase from the lyrics.

I used to use Google to search but I stopped when they started using AI, but I used to be able to exclude words from a search, e.g.

"She sits all day in an old rocking chair" NOT neglected

Or something simple like that.

I found this page which searches lyrics containing specific words of phrases:

lyrics containing rocking chair

That returned 1973 songs containing that phrase, How much time do you have? :-D

Maybe if more words were added to the search it might narrow down the list.