Pete Orman

DESCRIPTION: "I'll tell all you skinners from John Day to Bend That the road south o' Shaniko ain't got no bend." Pete Orman "never had time to get over the spree" but is sent out on the road. The drunken truckers (?) try to make a fast run.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1953 (Tennessee FOlklore Society Bulletin, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: technology travel drink
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 61, "Bill Orman" (1 text, tune referenced)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 638, "Pete Orman" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Siskiyou Miners" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
File: CAFS2638

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