Michigania

DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye Yankee farmers who would like to change your lot." The singer lists the problems with life in various parts of the country (from cold Vermont to "the land of Blue Laws" to tax-heavy Massachusetts) and urges listeners to come to "Michigania"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1851 (William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Botkin-TreasuryOfNewEnglandFolklore, pp. 555-556, "Michigania" (1 text)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 406-407, "Michigan-i-a" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, Donald A. Ringe "Two Items of Midwest Folklore Noted by William Cullen Bryant," Volume 6, Number 3 (Fall 1956), pp. 143-145, "Michigania" (1 excerpt, containing the whole text quoted by Bryant but not the whole song, with citations from other versions)
Roud #4745
File: BNEF555

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