When Poor Mary Came Wandering Home
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 05/01/2021

Day 292 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg writes: "This too was heard from Senior at Indiana University on the evening told of in the note to “Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?” It is a fragment, a little make-over, from the mawkish popular song, “Mary of the Wild Moor.” The mother of Senior sang it often. A wisp of melody, it is, five brief lines as implicative as a Chinese poem."