“Just Plain Folks”
Description
"To a mansion in the city came a couple old and gray To meet their son who left them long ago." The son, now rich, greets them coldly; the father says, "We're just plain folks, your mother and me." They leave him to his life; they are too ordinary for him
Recordings
- Arkansas Woodchopper [pseud. for Luther Ossenbrink], "Just Plain Folks" (Conqueror 7881, 1931)
References
- Randolph 862, "Just Plain Folks" (1 text)
- Roud #7533
- BI, R862