Moonshine Steer, The

DESCRIPTION: Two cowboys come across a still whose owner, thinking they are sheriffs, has fled. They get well and truly drunk, and see a steer with two heads, 12 legs, and 14 tails. At last they manage to give it a drink, and it disappears -- flying, according to them
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1935
KEYWORDS: drink cowboy talltale
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 73, "The Moonshine Steer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11202
File: FCW073

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