I am looking for a song my Grandma used to sing, described by my mother as a sad song from the Music Hall. Would love to confirm the lyrics, melody and other background information. What I have is this: Outside the workhouse was standing, a maid with a babe to her breast, I asked her the cause of her trouble, she said 'Sir, I am in distress' My young man has gone and disgraced me, left me and my baby alone. My mother has died broken-hearted, so I'm left in the world all alone. CHORUS OF You may think this world's very funny, for a rich man a life is all honey, but a poor ,am can't live without money. so you'll find that's the way of the world, If a rich man is had up for stealing, or commits any other bad crime, they say it is done without meaning, and is let off by paying a fine, but if a poor man is had up for stealing, or commits any other bad crime, they say it is done with a meaning, and is sent off to prison for time. CHORUS
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