Old Girder Bill

DESCRIPTION: "I'll write you a poem of an old mountaineer, Who spent his life hunting for raccoon and deer." Girder Bill goes hunting and sees a buck and doe; he shoots the buck and goes home, "A buck on his shoulder, a doe left for seed."
AUTHOR: Lije Littleton?
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: hunting
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thomas-BalladMakingInMountainsOfKentucky, p. 124, "Old Girder Bill" (1 text) (OakEd, pp. 131-132)
File: ThBa124

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