Twelve Hundred More

DESCRIPTION: "O workingmen dear, and did you hear The news that's going round, Another China steamer Has been landed here in town." They've brought twelve hundred more Chinese. They will take workingmen's jobs; the workers should fight back
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (The Blue and Gray Songster, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: immigration fight worker derivative | Chinese racist
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 305, "Twelve Hundred More" (1 text)
NOTES [22 words]: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest lists no tune for this, but it is self-evidently based on "The Wearing of the Green." - RBW
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