Powder River (I - Lazy River)

DESCRIPTION: "Last time on that lazy old river... I met a girl who was more like heaven And her smile will last forevermore." He courts her and plans to take her away from the river, but a "spirit of the water" struck back; he mourns her amid the ruins of the flood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1966
KEYWORDS: love courting river disaster flood death grief
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 61, "Powder River" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11076
NOTES [62 words]: The name of the river of this song is explicitly "Powder River," not "The Powder River"; the local custom is that you don't use an article before the name, ever. (See Helena Huntington Smith, The War On Powder River, University of Nebraska Press, 1966, p. 1). According to Smith, p. 9, the first big cattle drive on Powder River was organized by Moreton Frewen i 1879. - RBW
File: FCW061

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