“Sea Gulls and Crickets”

Description

Famine threatens Mormon pioneers in the winter of 1849; spring brings new shoots, but crickets sweep down "like fog on a British coast." The pioneers battle them in vain, but flocks of seagulls arrive and devour the crickets; the harvest is saved

Recordings

  • L. M. Hilton, "Sea Gulls and Crickets" (on Hilton01)

References

  1. Roud #10833
  2. BI, RecSgaC

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1952 (recording, L. M. Hilton)
Found in: US(Ro)