"Silver Jack", in the DigiTrad & in Lomax's _Folk Songs of North America_. Delicious irony, and very smoothly written. Tho it is not attributed, I have trouble believing it is a folksong. I would have guessed Bret Harte, but it seems not.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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