Poor Goins [Laws F22]

DESCRIPTION: Goins runs into bandits but escapes. He meets Ely Boggs, who promises to help him escape but instead turns him over to the robbers. A bandit clubs Goins to death when the latter's horse bolts
AUTHOR: Gabriel Church?
EARLIEST DATE: 1908
KEYWORDS: homicide outlaw robbery horse
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Oct 1844 - Murder of Alexander Goins in what was then Lee County, Virginia (source: Cohen)
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Laws F22, "Poor Goins"
Thomas-BalladMakingInMountainsOfKentucky, pp. 138-139, "Poor Goins" (1 text) (OakEd, p. 145-146)
Combs/Wilgus-FolkSongsOfTheSouthernUnitedStates 69, pp. 167-168, "Poor Goens" (1 text)
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 50, pp. 118-119, "Poor Goins" (1 text)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia1, pp. 191-192, "Poor Goins" (1 text)
DT 801, GOINS
Roud #2260
File: LF22

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