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[US] Woody Guthrie in ed. Alan Lomax Folk Songs of North America (1960) 428: It’s been sung in every buggy, lousy jail from New Jersey to Portland.
at buggy, adj.1
[US] W. Guthrie in Lomax Folk Songs of North America (1960) 428: If all the jails I been in was all put together, it would make a hard rock hotel as big as the Capitol building.
at hard-rock hotel, n.
[US] A. Lomax Folk Songs of North America 429: That [...] critter, known to Americans variously as the barnyard yodeller, the hard-tail, the jug-head, the long-eared chum and the Missouri humming bird.
at barnyard yodeller (n.) under barnyard, adj.
[US] A. Lomax Folk Songs of North America 429: That [...] critter, known to Americans variously as the barnyard yodeller, the hard-tail, the jug-head, the long-eared chum and the Missouri humming bird.
at long-eared chum, n.
[US] A. Lomax Folk Songs of North America 429: That [...] critter, known to Americans variously as the barnyard yodeller, the hard-tail, the jug-head, the long-eared chum and the Missouri humming bird.
at hard tail (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] A. Lomax Folk Songs of North America 429: That [...] critter, known to Americans variously as the barnyard yodeller, the hard-tail, the jug-head, the long-eared chum and the Missouri humming bird.
at Missouri hummingbird (n.) under Missouri, adj.
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