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"An Invitation to Lubberland" was a broadside ballad first printed in 1685. Many believe [who?] that it inspired the hobo ballad which formed the basis of the song Big Rock Candy Mountain recorded in 1928 by Harry McClintock. Lubberland is the Swedish name for Cockaigne, land of plenty in medieval myth.

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An Invitation to Lubberland

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"An Invitation to Lubberland" was a broadside ballad first printed in 1685. Many believe [who?] that it inspired the hobo ballad which formed the basis...

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Cockaigne

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fellow") comes Lubberland, popularized in the ballad An Invitation to Lubberland. In the 1820s, the name Cockaigne came to be applied jocularly to London as...

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The Big Rock Candy Mountains

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though it was likely partially based on other ballads, including "An Invitation to Lubberland" and "The Appleknocker's Lament". Other popular itinerant songs...

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Riparian Tales of Undoing", Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY 2010 "An Invitation of Lubberland", Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio "Reclaiming the...

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