I Found a Horseshoe

DESCRIPTION: "I found a horseshoe, I found a horseshoe, I picked it up and nailed it to a door. And it was rusty and full of nail holes, Good luck 'twill bring you forevermore." "The man who owned the horse he lives in New York." "The horse... his name was Mike"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag; Harbin-Parodology)
KEYWORDS: horse nonballad campsong
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, pp. 382-383, "I Found a Horseshoe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harbin-Parodology, #20, p. 13, "I Found a Horseshoe" (1 text)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Some Folklore of Grant County, Indiana, in the Nineties," Volume 1, Number 4 (WInter 1951), p. 264, "(Found a horse-shoe, found a horse-shoe)" (1 text)
Roud #10077
File: San382

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