Cook and the Teamster, The

DESCRIPTION: "There was a jolly cook, His name was Telephone...." A teamster goes in to the cookroom and hits his knife on a nail (?). He accuses the cook. The teamster drives the cook away. Hearers are warned against "greasers" as cooks
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: cook fight revenge foreigner
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 109-110, "The Cook and the Teamster" (1 text)
Roud #4066
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Cook and Teamster
NOTES [62 words]: This song is item dC45 in Laws's Appendix II. Eckstorm and Smythe suggest it is not a Maine song because of the racist reference at the end; this forces them to explain a reference to Barn McHugh as an insertion. Possibly they are right, but all instances of the song seem to be from the eastern woods. So it's possible that it's the racist verse that is the insertion. - RBW
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