A Lazy Farmer Boy

General Information
Performer: Buster Carter and Preston Young

Instrumentation: Violin-Posey Rorer, Guitar-Preston Young

Date of recording: 1931

Record label: Columbia

Serial #:15702D (151648)

Summary
(As summarized by Harry Smith, The Anthology Of American Folk Music) "YOUNG AGRICULTURIST NEGLECTS SEED - LOOSES BOTH CROP AND FIANCÉE." (2)

Information On This Song
This ballad may have originated in the 19th century. The Preston Young version actually didn't include Buster Carter.

Albums Featuring This Song

 * The Anthology Of American Folk Music
 * Before The Blues
 * ''Walter Smith & Friends Vol. 3

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