New Road, The

DESCRIPTION: "For fifty years I've known a woodland Of patriarchal trees, Their roots grown deep in good land, Boughs swaying in the breeze." The singer recalls how farmers came and made the land their own. But now their fields and homes are being separate by roads.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Thomas)
KEYWORDS: home farming technology
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thomas-BalladMakingInMountainsOfKentucky, pp. 261-262, (no title) (1 text) (OakEd, pp. 260-261)
File: ThBa262

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