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Put Me In Your Pocket

from The Gift by Clary Croft

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Put Me In Your Pocket
(Attributed to: Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel)

When my great-grandmother, Cora McDiarmaid, was a young girl she babysat for the son of the Baptist minister and his wife in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia. She would rock the baby and sing to him. Years later, she rocked me and sang many of the same songs. That baby was Wilf Carter and I like to think that Wilf and I got our musical start from the same wonderful woman.

I learned this song from my mother and father, Olive and Clarence Croft. They would sing in the car as we drove back and forth from Sherbrooke to Halifax. Falling asleep in the back seat of the car while listening to their version of this Wilf Carter hit is one of my fondest memories. Dedicated with love to my dearly missed mom and dad. This was "their song".


Two lovers met one evening beneath the pale moon light,
Tomorrow he must sail away great battles for to fight,
He told her that he loved her, and he’d return one day,
And take her for his darling wife,
And then he heard her say,

Put me in your pocket so I’ll be close to you,
No more will I be lonesome and no more will I be blue,
And when we have to part dear, there’ll be no sad adieu,
For I’ll be in your pocket and I’ll go along with you.

The evening sun was setting, her lover went away,
And when at last he did return for the happy wedding day,
His sweetheart, she had vanished; to heaven she had flown,
But she left behind this photograph, on which she wrote this song ...

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from The Gift, released April 20, 2021

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Clary Croft Nova Scotia

Clary is a folklore researcher, author and recording artist. His newly published memoirs, Clary Croft: My Charmed Life in Music, Art, and Folklore, chronicles a career spanning over fifty years. His work with the traditional music from the Creighton Collection, has caused Clary to be called, “the acknowledged master of one of the richest repertoires in Canada.” [Halifax Mail Star] ... more

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