We Was Logging in Kentucky

DESCRIPTION: "We was loggin' in Kentucky With Jerry and Joe, Draggin' up the timber.... Jerry and Joe was oxen white." "Bob" goes out to find the missing oxen. They eventually find a "skeeter," which had eaten Jerry and was ringing his bell to get more food
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (Smith-SouthCarolinaBallads)
KEYWORDS: humorous talltale animal cattle work lumbering bug death
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Smith-SouthCarolinaBallads, pp. 30-31, "(no title)" (1 text)
File: ReSm030

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