Seven Devil Mines, The

DESCRIPTION: "Come all ye bold adventurers And listen to my song About the Seven Devil mines...." Don't complain about the snakes, or the hard work, or the hard rock that you have to blast, or the "money kings" who control things. They might still get rich;drink up
AUTHOR: H. F. Johnson (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1895 (Johnson, Poems of Idaho, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining money drink
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 140-141, "The Seven Devil Mines" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh! Susanna" (tune) and references there
NOTES [28 words]: The Seven Devils mining district is in Adams County, Idaho, about 75 miles north of Boise near the Idaho/Oregon border. There are many mines in that area of Idaho. - RBW
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File: LDC140

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