Bisbee's Queen

DESCRIPTION: "Say, pal, which way are you drifting? How's the cutting down the line?" The camps are working hard. The singer wonders about Bisbee. There is lots of work, but Bisbee's Queen and the bosses make false promises; they will collect your pay back for her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (April 11, 1907 [Denver] "Miner's Magazine," according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining travel hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 154-155, "Bisbee's Queen" (1 text)
NOTES [58 words]: A decade after this song was published, there was a "deportation" of IWW miners at Bisbee (see "Bisbee!"), which hints that the bosses really were hard on the workers there, but beyond that, I really have no idea what the song is about. The note on p. 144 of Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest mentions a speedup there, but no "Queen." - RBW
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