SHE WAS POOR BUT SHE WAS HONEST

Created on 10/02/2002
Latest update on 03/05/2021

Artist: Billy Bennett
Author: R.P. Weston/Bert Lee
Label: Columbia
Year: 1930

Popular late 19th century bawdy song in the English music hall tradition, massively adopted by English soldiers during WW I, sometimes also as It's The Same The Whole World Over. Carl Sandburg mentioned it as such in his American Songbook (1927).

Covers:

1957:

Vipers Skiffle Group

1965:

Ian Whitcomb & Bluesville [as Poor But Honest, B-side of You Turn Me On, controversial top 10 US (due to suggestive lyrics and explicit moaning)]

1965:

Per Dich [Danish as Kapitalismen, first in folk clubs, since '67 on record]

1967:

Fred Akerström [idem in Swedish]

1967:

Leen Jongewaard [as De Schuld Van Het Kapitaal; Dutch lyrics: Michel van der Plas]

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