Little Adobe Casa

DESCRIPTION: "Just one year ago today, I left my eastern home, Hunting for a fortune and for fame. Little did I think that now I'd be in Mexico In this little adobe casa on the plains." Life is awful. He wishes a local girl would be his wife, at least until he escapes
AUTHOR: Credited to Tom Beasley by Thorp
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (Thorp)
KEYWORDS: hardtimes settler bachelor Mexico derivative
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Thorp/Fife-SongsOfTheCowboys VII, pp. 87-96 (20), "Little Adobe Casa" (6 texts, 2 tunes); Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 93-94, "Little Adobe Casa" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 469, "Little Adobe Casa" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #11082
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim" (tune, form, concept)
NOTES [45 words]: "Little Adobe Casa" looks to me to be simply a localization of "The Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim," and there are intermediate versions, so I initially did not split them. But Roud makes "Little Adobe Casa" distinct, as do several other editors, so I've now divided them.
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