Harvest Land

DESCRIPTION: "The harvest drive is on again, John Farmer needs a lot of men To work beneath the Kansas heat" -- but they won't take the low wages he pays. They don't trust him. The big farmers are found throughout the west, but "I will not be here again"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (IWW Songs, 17th Edition, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: farming hardtimes money labor-movement derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 491-492, "Harvest Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9827
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Beulah Land" (tune, form) and references there
File: LDC491

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