Tornado Blues

DESCRIPTION: "I uster own the Chickabee farm, I'm washing dishes today, Becaws a tornado comes along And takes my farm away." "It takes the cows, and the gelding... The doggone thing leaves me nothing But the wife and the mortgage due."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1933 (Cambiaire)
KEYWORDS: disaster storm farming hardtimes
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
March 7, 1933 - "[A] terrible tornado caused great damage in East Tennessee (Cambiaire-EastTennesseeWestVirginiaMountainBallads)
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cambiaire-EastTennesseeWestVirginiaMountainBallads, p. 10, "Tornado Blue" (1 text)
Roud #12636
File: Camb010

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