Yonder Comes the Devil

DESCRIPTION: The Devil, with his pitchfork and shovel, tries to dig up potatoes in the turnpike road. "And the road was so hard and he couldn't get 'em up. So yonder run the Devil with his tail cocked up" The Devil may call in his family, who also struggle
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c.1973 (recording, Joe Jones)
KEYWORDS: humorous nonballad nonsense talltale Devil food
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Roy Palmer, _The Folklore of Warwickshire_, Rowman and Littlefield, 1976, p. 72 (an untitled 8-line fragment)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Jones, "Yonder Comes the Devil" (on Voice14)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Oh, Mister Revel (Did You Ever See the Devil?)" (theme, lyrics)
File: RcYCtDev

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