Start that Casey Got, The

DESCRIPTION: "Sure Mike Casey got a job in a powder mill At a dollar and ten a day," thinking it an easy way to earn money -- until he comes to work smoking his pipe. The mill explodes, and "He didn't come down, For men that travel like Casey did Are seldom found."
AUTHOR: Robert J. Quigley ? (source: Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
KEYWORDS: humorous injury worker drugs
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, pp. 59-61, "The Start that Casey Got" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Go 'Way Back and Sit Down" (tune, according to Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
File: KMMP059

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