The Good Boy
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 2020-07-21

Day 127 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg's chapter on THE BRUTAL CITY in the AMERICAN SONGBAG is pretty depressing.

Lem Parton, a New York journalist who farms at Sneeden's Landing up the Hudson, gives the following version of a highbrow folk song which has several variants. First published by Sandburg,  it also appears in Frank Shay's Barroom Ballads and Sigmund Spaeth's Read 'Em and Weep.