'On A Bright and Sunny Morning, the Ground All Covered in Snow...'
and losts of other silly verses from Bascom Lamar Lundsford.
What did Frank Hamilton call him?
All those broken token songs are a bit silly: stranger turns up, girl doesn't fancy him, stranger says but I'm your lost lover (has he had a transplant of some sort?), girl does fancy him ... but that's love!
That cowboy who's shrouded before he's dead: in the Bayeaux Tapestry, Edward the Confessor is buried in one scene and then he dies in the next. Licence I guess
DocJ