Happy Birthday!

Joseph Clifton Trees

who discovered more oil than anyone ever,

was born

11/10/1869
(died May 20, 1943)

          As I walked out one morning in May
          I met a fair damsel and to her did say
          It's all for a fortune I am willing to toil
          If you'll show me some place to go boring for oil.
  
          She stammered, she stammered, kind sir, I declare,
          I know of a place and I've nursed it with care,
          And no one has seen it since I was a child
          And I'll show you there's no trouble in boring for oil.
  
          Oh, I had not bored down more than six inches or so,
          When the oil from my well it so freely did flow,
          She screamed and she hollered Oh my character's spoiled
          You've busted my hamgut while boring for oil. [?]
  
                  "Boring for Oil"
  
  From The Robert W. Gordon "Inferno" Collection in the Archive of Folk Song, Library of 
  Congress.  Davids MSS, Written down by R.M. Davids, Cross X Ranch, Woodmere, Florida, 
  c. 1924. Sent in to R.W. Gordon by J.C. Colcord 12/21/29. pp. 5-6

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