Subsidy: A Goat Island Ballad

DESCRIPTION: "There is a corporation within this Golden State Which owns a line of railroads for conveying men and freight" which runs from Sacramento to Ogden. The route runs that way due to subsidies -- and because "The corporation's clever and the public is an ass"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1872 (California Mail Bag, March-April 1872, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: railroading derivative money | subsidy California
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 69-71, "Subsidy: A Goat Island Ballad" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Old English Gentleman" (lyrics, theme) and references there
File: LDC069

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