“Gone Long Ago”
Description
"Where are the friends that to me were so dear? Gone long ago... Hopes that I cherished are fled from me now, I am degraded for rum was my foe, Gone long ago, long ago." The singer looks back on what drink has cost him: His wife, his youth, his virtue
Cross references
- cf. "Long, Long Ago!" (tune)
References
- Randolph 315, "Gone Long Ago" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #7791
- BI, R315