How to Dodge the Hard Times

DESCRIPTION: "How to dodge the hard times is the hardest of tasks, For whatever becomes of us? Ev'ryone will ask." Raising food is not enough to survive or support the colony. Make cloth and clothes as well, work at trades, build a future
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Wellington Evening Post, according to Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand hardtimes food nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Colquhoun-NZ-Folksongs-SongOfAYoungCountry, p. 35, "How to Dodge the Hard Times" (1 text, 1 modern tune) (p. 20 in the 1972 edition)
File: Colq020

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