Lasca

DESCRIPTION: "I want free life and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle/" The cowboy loved fiery Lasca "in Texas, down by the Rio Grande." Deep in love, they ignore the cattle -- and they are forced to flee a stampede. She is thrown and dies
AUTHOR: Words: Frank Desprez (1853-1916)
EARLIEST DATE: 1882 (The London Society: A Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature)
KEYWORDS: love courting Mexico cattle death burial recitation
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Bethke-AdirondackVoices, pp. 119-121, "Lasca" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-BarroomBallads/PiousFriendsDrunkenCompanions, pp. 86-89, "Lasca" (1 text)
Roud #2980
File: SBar086

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