Casey Jones the MIner

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you muckers and gather here, If you want to hear the story of a miner dear." Casey makes his name on a Burleigh machine at the Liberty Bell mine. Casey is killed in a mine explosion. He had wished to try different drilling equipment
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Southern Folklore Quarterly 6)
KEYWORDS: mining derivative death
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 566-567, "Casey Jones the Miner" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] and references there
File: CAFS2566

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