Shu Lady

DESCRIPTION: Incoherent account, with many floating insertions, of an attack on Chandler's fish-dyke. The people who did the damage are brought to trial and forced to sell their cows to pay the fines. The song objects to the Freemason jury
AUTHOR: Ms. (?) Lawless?
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: fishing trial punishment
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore2 311, "Shu Lady" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore4 311, "Shu Lady" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Roud #6646
File: BrII311

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