Greenhorn Makes Good, A

DESCRIPTION: "Me vorking fer Prospect, me gotta gut job," but the singer doesn't like the work and quits. He can't find anyone to hire him until Paddy Burke takes him on. But Burke can't pay. A judge writes a note that gets him what he wants
AUTHOR: Con Carbon ? (source: Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
EARLIEST DATE: 1936 (Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch)
KEYWORDS: worker hardtimes mining humorous
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, pp. 134-135, "A Greenhorn Makes Good" (1 text)
NOTES [36 words]: Korson says "tradition" attributes this to Con Carbon, which implies oral circulation, but I have no real evidence for that supposition. The dialect looks awfully German for a worker whom Korson suggests is a Slav. - RBW
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File: KMMP134

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