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| Title | O rock a bye baby your pop's on his claim |
| Subject | Poetry; Frontier and pioneer life |
| Location | Brownbranch (Mo.); North Platte (Neb.); |
| Description | A poem by S. W. Mannon, possibly written in Missouri or in Nebraska. |
| Creator | Mannon, Samuel W. |
| Contributors | Mannon, Birdle, 1909-1999 |
| Date | undated |
| Transcript | O rock a bye baby your pop's on his claim, way out in the west where the tornado came / He's got him no razor he's got him no hone he shaves with his jack knife and whets on a bone. / He'll break us a garden and patch for some corn and come for the baby some cold winter morn. / He'll wrap up the baby in jack rabbit skins and thorns from the cactus he'll use for the pins / O cold are the blizzards and deep are the snows way out in the west where the lone settler goes / The crops are so short and the prices so low, the bright golden future is coming so slow. |
| Source | 5" x 8" manuscript: Birdle Mannon Collection (M008), Series I, Box 1 |
| Collection | http://library.missouristate.edu/archives/speccoll/m008.htm |
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| Identifier | MOU_M008_01_0024 |
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| Type | text |
