No Boots

DESCRIPTION: "Down in the land of the Antipodites, Round the campfires that burn on a cold winter's night," bushmen report that ghosts walk "with no boots at all." A young man goes climbing without boots. He falls. Neither heaven nor hell will take him without boots
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1950 (Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook)
KEYWORDS: humorous clothes death Hell humorous
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook, pp. 80-81, "No Boots" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [24 words]: I rather suspect this was originally sung to "Vilikins and His Dinah," but this is not the tune given by Cleveland-NZ-GreatNewZealandSongbook. - RBW
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