Wet Oregon (Oregon Girls)

DESCRIPTION: "I've reached the land of rain and mud Where flowers and trees so early bud. It rains and rains both night and day, For in Oregon it rains always." The singer wishes it would stop. Oregon girls with "soggy curls" reejct those who don't wipe their feet
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (Suzi Jones, _Oregon Folklore_)
KEYWORDS: humorous home hardtimes rejection hair
FOUND IN: US(NW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
ADDITIONAL: Suzi Jones, _Oregon Folklore_, University of Oregon/Oregon Arts Commission, 1977, pp. 24-25, "Wet Oregon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tom Nash and Twilo Scofield, _The Well-Travelled Casket: Oregon Folklore_, Meadowlark Press, 1999, p. 39, "Oregon Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4899
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Beulah Land" (tune, form) and references there
cf. "Dakota Land" (tune, theme, lyrics)
NOTES [68 words]: Roud lumps this with "Dakota Land," and I see his point; it's another satire on local conditions to the "Beulah Land" tune. But this is clearly a complete rewrite, so I've split them.
I would add that Oregon became a state before the Dakotas, and for the most part was settled earlier, so it is by no means obvious that "Dakota Land" precedes this song, even though the Dakota version is much better known. - RBW
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File: OregF024

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