Casey Jones, the Miner

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you muckers and gather here If you want to hear the story of a miner dear." "Casey Jones was a ten day miner" on a Burleigh machine. Eventually he gets sloppy and is mortally injured. He wishes he had tried an Ingersoll jackhammer
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining death technology derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 146-147, "Casey Jones, the Miner" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Casey Jones (I)" [Laws G1] (tune, characters) and references there
File: LDC146

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