Keenly Lode, The

DESCRIPTION: "Old Uncle Pengerric a Captain was, A dowser shrewd was he" who found the "keenly lode." A company is set up at great cost to mine it. They dig -- and find only a dead horse and its shoe. Uncle Pengerric declares it's not his fault -- but leaves town
AUTHOR: mostly Sabine Baring-Gould (source: Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: mining humorous travel trick | dowsing
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #46, "The Keenly Lode" (1 text, 1 tune, the text mostly rewritten)
Roud #6909
File: BGSW046

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