I Found a Horseshoe
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 2020-11-13

Day 240 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

First published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag in 1927.

Railroad switchmen at Illinois and Iowa division points sang this on nights in the 1890's when their gloves froze to the coupling pins between coal cars, and it was fun to reach a shanty stove. ...

Paperhangers, ice wagon drivers, hash slingers and short order cooks have joined up and sung it on summer evenings for good people gathered under the Chinese lanterns of a lawn sociable, with ice cream served by the Ladies' Aid Society. ...

Henry Joslyn sets it here as a four-part piece for quartets.