Petroleum Oiil

DESCRIPTION: "How strange! Why, old Fishkill is all in a blaze, And the people -- why, they the Old Nick will soon raise!" All "are prospecting for Petroleum Oil." Oil is everywhere -- even in the water and the whiskey. But at least they're getting rich
AUTHOR: "A. W. L." (source: Nestler)
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Nestler)
KEYWORDS: mining money drink
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1864 - the Fishkill oil "strike" (which seems to have been hoax)
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Harold Nestler, "Songs from the Hudson Valley" (article in _New York Folklore Quarterly_, Volume V, #2, Summer 1949), p. 101, "Petroleum Oil" (1 text)
File: Nest109

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