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"'I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground'"
Song by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Released1928
GenreRoots and Folk music
LabelBrunswick Records
Songwriter(s)traditional

"I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" is a traditional American folk song. It was most famously recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1928 for Brunswick Records in Ashland, Kentucky. Harry Smith included "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" on his Anthology of American Folk Music released by Folkways Records in 1952. The notes for Smith's Anthology state that Lunsford learned this song from Fred Moody, a North Carolina neighbor, in 1901.[1]

  1. ^ Place, Jeff (1997). Notes to Anthology of American Folk Music. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. p. 59.

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