Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Records, a subsidiary of Toshiba, as OR-1272. It was backed by the song "Wonderful World". It was recorded by Nellie McKay for her 2015 album "My Weekly Reader". Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" is a popular song written by British actor, screenwriter and songwriter Trevor Peacock. It was originally sung by actor Tom Courtenay in "The Lads", a British TV play of 1963, and released as a single on UK Decca. The best-known version of the song is by Herman's Hermits, who took it to number one on the US "Billboard"
How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins How the Daughter-in-Law Got the Coins is a Sri Lankan fairy tale collected by H. Parker in "Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon". It is Aarne–Thompson type 982, Ungrateful Heirs. A man marries a rich woman who did not help his mother. He gives his mother a bag full of pottery shards. The mother contracts leprosy, but since she shakes the bags where the daughter-in-law can hear and announces that whoever cares for it will have, the daughter-in-law tends her. After the mother dies, the woman realizes it was shards, not coins. The tale is widespread,