Whisky Johnny
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 2020-11-24

Day 251 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg writes: "Once when the night was wild without and the wintry winds piled snowdrifts around the traffic signals on Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, we sat with Robert Frost and Padraic Colum. The Gael had favored with Irish ballads of murder, robbery, passion. And Frost offered a sailorman song he learned as a boy on the wharves of San Francisco.