Overland Stage Driver, The

DESCRIPTION: "I sing to everybody, in the country and the town... But plead for the cause of sticking to the box seat of a coach." The singer enjoys seeing the plains and the mountains; the weather doesn't bother him; he is proud to carry the mail
AUTHOR: Nat Stein (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1865 (Montana Post [of Virginia City], April 8, 1865, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: work travel
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 56-57, "The Overland Stage Driver" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The High Salary Driver of the Denver City Line" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
File: LDC056

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