Emigrant from Pike

DESCRIPTION: "I've just arrived across the plains, Oh didn't I have awful times, It makes the blood run greasy through my veins." He's been hungry. He's had many diseases. No one will give him anything. He wishes he were back in Pike
AUTHOR: John A. Stone ("Old Put")
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1854 (Put's Golden Songster)
KEYWORDS: travel gold hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 44-45, "Emigrant from Pike" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7775
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Emigrant from Pike" ("I've just got in across the plains" lyric)
NOTES [81 words]: Roud assigns the same number to "I've Just Got In Across the Plains" (originally titled "Arrival of the Greenhorn") and "Emigrant from Pike," which is understandable since they start with almost the same words and refer to the same sort of situation, but they are in fact separate songs.
This is unusual for an Old Put piece in that it uses multiple tunes: The first verse is "Nelly Was a Lady," the first chorus is "[Old] Dan Tucker," and the remainder "King of the Cannibal Islands." - RBW
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