Forest Service

DESCRIPTION: "I've been working for the forest service, the forest service, I've been working for... to pay my whiskey bill." "Oh, you try and you try, but you never get paid." People want something to hang on their pickup trucks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: work drink money hardtimes derivative
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RECORDINGS:
Susan Waters, "Forest Service" (Piotr-Archive #890, recorded 06/20/2024)
NOTES [18 words]: This is clearly derived from some pseudo-work song, and I KNOW I know that tune, but I can't trace it. - RBW
Last updated in version 7.2
File: DPio890

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