Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn, The [Laws H13]

DESCRIPTION: A lazy young farmer will not hoe his corn, with the result that the corn is choked by weeds and destroyed by frost. When he goes courting, his suit is rejected because he wouldn't hoe his corn
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety)
KEYWORDS: farming courting rejection work
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES (33 citations):
Laws H13, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn"
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, p. 440, "The Young Man who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Randolph 441, "The Lazy Young Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy-BalladsAndSongsFromOhio 106, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Stout-FolkloreFromIowa 68, pp. 91-92, "The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 170-172, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 216, "The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe His Corn" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 216, "The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe His Corn" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol1, pp. 44-45, "Lazy Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 191, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Plow Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-1ed, pp. 219-221, "The Lazy Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-2ed, pp. 128-129, "The Lazy Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart1 35, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown-VermontFolkSongsAndBallads, pp. 74, "The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, pp. 409-410, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 73, pp. 200-201, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Brewster-BalladsAndSongsOfIndiana 68, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe His Corn" (1 text)
McNeil-SouthernFolkBalladsVol1, pp. 164-165, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 182, "Harm Link" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 173, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle, pp73-74, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2, pp. 24-25, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scott-TheBalladOfAmerica, pp. 46-47, "The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn (The Lazy Man)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-FolkSongUSA 66, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry, pp. 286-187, "Georgia Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dunson/Raim/Asch-AnthologyOfAmericanFolkMusic, p. 38 "A Lazy Farmer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfAmericanFolklore, pp. 874, "Young Man Who Wouldn't How Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 46, pp. 110-111, "The Man That Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Darling-NewAmericanSongster, pp. 229-230, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
Arnett-IHearAmericaSinging, p. 10, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Seeger-AmericanFavoriteBallads, p. 42, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 120, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (1 text)
DT 636, HOECORN
Roud #438
RECORDINGS:
Buster Carter & Preston Young, "A Lazy Farmer Boy" (Columbia 15702-D, 1931; on AAFM1, BefBlues3)
Edna & Jean Ritchie, "The Young Man That Wouldn't Raise Corn" (on Ritchie03)
Pete Seeger, "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (on GrowOn3) (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07b)
Vern Smelser, "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" (on FineTimes)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Lazy Man
File: LH13

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