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I Tuck Me Some Corn to the County Seat
This is a form of the familiar gibe at the cheating miller, a
charge as old at least as The Canterbury Tales and still current in
folk song as 'The Miller and His Three Sons.' But this particular
form of the gibe I have not found elsewhere.
No title except the first line. Dr. Brown contributed it to the Collection,
but without noting whence he got it. The two halves of the last line
should, one supposes, be transposed.
I tuck me some corn to the county seat.
Three bushel of corn, three bushel of wheat.
The miller tuck fur his millin^turn
Three bushel of corn, three bushel of wheat.