“Come All You Friends and Neighbors”
Description
"Come all you friends and neighbours, For you know that you are born to die, Come view my situation As helpless here I lie." The singer, in a "weakened condition," asks "never let me seek in vain." He hopes to be where "consumption And fever is no more."
Cross references
- cf. "Lonesome Dove (I - The Minister's Lamentation)" (theme)
References
- BrownIII 561, "Come All You Friends and Neighbors" (1 short text)
- Roud #11884
- BI, Br3561