Vermont Boys in Gardner, The

DESCRIPTION: "The boys from Vermont to Gardner did go, In search of a job, as you very well know." They are advices, "Don't leave old Vermont... They'll call you the scamps from the Green Mountain hills." The song lists those who left Vermont and came back
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes emigration return moniker
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster, pp. 110-111, "The Vermont Boys in Gardner" (1 short text, 1 tune)
ST FlNG110 (Partial)
Roud #4660
NOTES [43 words]: I've tagged this as a moniker song because the second verse in Flanders et al looks like it belongs to a sequence of verses about people who left Vermont and got in trouble -- but with only one known version, and that only two verses long, I can't be sure. - RBW
Last updated in version 3.0
File: FlNG110

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