Longing
DESCRIPTION: "From the green and fiertile valley where the broad Willamette flows" the singer sees mountains and fields and beautiful sights, and earns a living logging, but all things remind him of home; "And oh, I'm longing, longing for the bays of Michigan"
AUTHOR: Lizzie Langworthy Connine
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: homesickness
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 48, "Longing" (1 text)
Roud #18186
File: BeLo048
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