Old Trouble -- A L Ranch Colored Cook

DESCRIPTION: "Morn's breakin' over de ole Ranch before de moon's gone way," meaning frost is coming. In artificial black dialect, the speaker describes all the signs in nature which reveal that "dere's gwine to be some trouble mighty soon"
AUTHOR: N. Howard Thorp
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys)
KEYWORDS: Black(s) warning nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Thorp/Logsdon-SongsOfTheCowboys, pp. 122-123, "'Old Trouble' A L Ranch Colored Cook" (1 text)
File: ThLo122

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