Curtis House at Jennings

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, Curtis House is still as a mouse, There is no other place for me. I look away across the lake" hoping to see a place with better food. The singer also thinks of the hard times after a blizzard, when loggers face "two-foot ice and five-foot snow."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: logger travel food hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 40, "Curtis House at Jennings" (1 text)
Roud #18190
File: BeLo040

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