Shoot Your Dice and Have Your Fun

DESCRIPTION: "Shoot your dice and have your fun, I'll have mine when the police come. Police come, I didn't want to go; I knocked him in the head wid a forty-fo'."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: gambling police
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 51, "Shoot Your Dice and Have Your Fun" (1 short text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore551, "Shoot Your Dice and Have Your Fun" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Roud #7853
File: Br3051

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