Webfoot Land

DESCRIPTION: "I've reached the land of mud and rain, I've struggled long this land to gain." Having reached the "webfoot land," "I sometimes wish that I had not." The rain is constant. He will head back east if he can find the money; he wants to see the sun
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1999 (Nash & Scofield, The Well-Traveled Casket, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: home hardtimes humorous
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 636-637, "Webfoot Land" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Tom Nash and Twilo Scofield, _The Well-Travelled Casket: Oregon Folklore_, Meadowlark Press, 1999, p. 40, "Webfoot Land" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #4899
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Beulah Land" (tune, form) and references there
cf. "Saskatchewan" (tune, theme)
cf. "Dakota Land" (tune, theme)
File: CAFS2636

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