Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Day 210 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg writes: "Sympathy for The First Man is here. . . . College girls sing it. . Text and tune are from the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg. Virginia."

I'm very sorry for old Adam,
Just as sorry as can be,
For he never had no mammy
For to hold him on her knee.

And I've always had the feeling
He'd a-let that apple be
If he'd only had a mammy
For to hold him on her knee.