“Drive Dull Care Away”
Description
"Oh why should we at our lot complain or grieve at our distress? ... while we're here with our friends so dear we'll drive dull care away." Be satisfied with your state, "have a contented mind," and "make the best of life"
Notes
Ives-DullCare reproduces a note seeming to push the earliest date at least to 1775. - BS
Recordings
- Charles Gorman, "Drive Dull Care Away" (on MREIves01)
References
- Ives-DullCare, pp. 81-82, 244, "Drive Dull Care Away" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, DULLCARE*
- Roud #13988
- BI, IvDC081