Cousin Jack

DESCRIPTION: "You ask me for a song, folks... Don't blame me if I do not suit, For nature has its call.... It's second nature to that class Of lads called 'Cousin Jacks.'" There are Jacks on the mountains and the plains and in mines. None can mine like the Cornish
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Southern Folklore Quarterly, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining | Cousin Jack Cornish
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 156, "Cousin Jack" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4611
File: LDC156

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