Bootlegger, The (Trammell's Bootlegger)

DESCRIPTION: "Hee-haw, hee-haw, Blind Jack is my name, I romp, I paw, I snort, I snooze, For I am in the business of selling booze." But the police are after him; he hopes to escape, but apparently is punished -- and hopes to win a prize for his poetry about it
AUTHOR: "Trammell"
EARLIEST DATE: Dated to 1915; printed by Fuson-BalladsOfTheKentuckyHighlands 1931
KEYWORDS: drink punishment judge
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fuson-BalladsOfTheKentuckyHighlands, p. 154, "The Bootlegger" (1 text)
ST Fus154 (Partial)
Roud #16369
NOTES [30 words]: Seemingly not traditional, and certainly not very good (or very easy to understand), but Fuson-BalladsOfTheKentuckyHighlands includes it as a "type of extreme modern ballad." - RBW
File: Fus154

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