Freighting from Wilcox to Globe

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you jolly freighters who travel upon the rooad That ever hauled a load of coke from Wilcox to Globe!" A tale of a bad trip, with everything overpriced, and having a mule stolen. The singer hopes to go into business and treat them as they did him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (recorded from Abrabam John Busby, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: work travel hardtimes commerce
FOUND IN: US(SW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 20, "Freighting from Wilcox to Globe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 62-64, "Freighting from Wilcox to Globe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 532, "Freighting from Wilcox to Globe" (1 text)
Roud #8016
NOTES [49 words]: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest lists the tune of this as "Home, Dearie, Home," and that is obviously the source of the chorus of their version (the Abraham John Busby version). The verse doesn't fit it especially well, though; I wonder if it was actually written to that tune. - RBW
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