Kansas Land (I)

DESCRIPTION: "I've reached the land of corn and wheat... I bought my land from Uncle Sam, And now I'm happy as I clam." The singer has animals of good ancestry. He has been in Kansas for a long time, but now increased population is squeezing him out
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (collected from Grace Philbrook, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: home derivative farming
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 499, "Kansas Land" (1 text plus an excerpt from "Beulah Land")
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 143-144, "Kansas Land" (1 text, which could either be a "Dakota Land" version rewritten for Kansas or a "Kansas Land" version with the references to the government removed)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 462, "Kansas Land, I"; p. 463, "Kansas Land, II" (2 texts, tune referenced; although the two are clearly not identical, they equally clearly go back to the same source)
Roud #4899
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Beulah Land" (tune, form) and references there
cf. "Dakota Land" (form, plus the subject of problems living in the West)
NOTES [18 words]: Roud lumps a great many "Beulah Land" parodies under his #4899, but this seems clearly a distinct item. - RBW
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