Roving Joe (Wherever You May Wander)
DESCRIPTION: "Wherever you may wander And taste the nation's bounty, You'll find there is no place on earth Like good old Potter County."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1919 (Shoemaker)
KEYWORDS: home travel | Potter County Pennsylvania
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, "Roving Joe" (1 fragment) (p. 158 in the 1919 edition; not found in the third edition)
Roud #15008
NOTES [25 words]: Roud includes this with "Uncle Sam's Farm," found a few pages earlier in Shoemaker's first edition, but I think this is just a numbering glitch. - RBW
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