Blue Rock Hotel, The

DESCRIPTION: A boarding house in Blue Rock ... cellar for the graveyard ... underkeeper keeps the shop next door." The food is awful. "Travelers ... rooms have hired ... passed their checks ... relieved from torture"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (recording, James C. Richards)
KEYWORDS: poverty hardtimes home death nonballad humorous food
FOUND IN: US(MA)
Roud #24834
RECORDINGS:
James C. Richards, "The Blue Rock Hotel" (in BayardCollection, video 29 ("James C. Richards" starting at 00.00))
File: RcBlRoHo

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