Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks: With Other Songs from MaineRoland Palmer Gray |
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... tell me what he knew about the origin of the ballad . I wrote down what he said . " The accident , " he told me , “ took place on the west branch of the Penobscot River just above a place now called Mawutum . There was a rock there ...
... tell me what he knew about the origin of the ballad . I wrote down what he said . " The accident , " he told me , “ took place on the west branch of the Penobscot River just above a place now called Mawutum . There was a rock there ...
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... tell me how this and similar ballads come to be made . " Well , " he said , " I will tell you . Something happens . Then , at night , when the fellows are gathered around the fire , some one , who can sing better than the rest , starts ...
... tell me how this and similar ballads come to be made . " Well , " he said , " I will tell you . Something happens . Then , at night , when the fellows are gathered around the fire , some one , who can sing better than the rest , starts ...
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... telling . He started a song , the rest often aiding by adding a word here and there , sometimes a line or more . One Frenchman , I remember , would ask them [ the lumberjacks ] to give him an incident or accident or character ; then he ...
... telling . He started a song , the rest often aiding by adding a word here and there , sometimes a line or more . One Frenchman , I remember , would ask them [ the lumberjacks ] to give him an incident or accident or character ; then he ...
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... be ; I would have you pay attention And listen unto me , While I tell you of some shanty boys , So noble and so brave , Who broke the jam on Gerry's rock And found a watery grave . 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 It being on 6 Songs and Ballads.
... be ; I would have you pay attention And listen unto me , While I tell you of some shanty boys , So noble and so brave , Who broke the jam on Gerry's rock And found a watery grave . 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 It being on 6 Songs and Ballads.
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... And if it don't suit you , please tell me in time , For the trains they are moving , their whistles do blow , So farewell , my Darling , to the woods I must go . B " LUMBERMAN'S ALPHABET , " taken down for the Maine Lumberjacks I I.
... And if it don't suit you , please tell me in time , For the trains they are moving , their whistles do blow , So farewell , my Darling , to the woods I must go . B " LUMBERMAN'S ALPHABET , " taken down for the Maine Lumberjacks I I.
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9 ΙΟ American Folk-Lore Andrew Martine Aroostook War ballad Bangor Bar Harbor town Beaver Bay Belonging to Trimore Boston camp Chorus cold Colley's Run dark-ey'd sailor Dark-Eyed Sailor darow Li-turrol-o-day dear drink round editor eighteen England English broadsides eyes fair father fell fight Flying Cloud Folk-Song foreman friends gallant Gerry's Rock girl heart Indians jacket so blue Jam at Gerry's John John Lovewell Jolly brave boys Journal of American land logs Lovewell Lovewell's lumbering will go lumberjack Mary Mattawamkeag Millinocket lake morning ne'er never night o'er Old Dunny Orono Penobscot Piscataquis County poor old horse printed range the wild recited river roll sailed salt sea Scotland Searsport shanty boys shaved Shedd ship shore Sing fol-de-diddle Split Rock Light squire's young daughter stanzas stood sung taters tears tell There's town true Twa Sisters University of Maine variant wild woods Yankee Young Charlotte young Monroe
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Page 129 - Twas nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian, soon after break of day ; He on a bank was walking, upon a neck of land, Which leads into a pond, as we're made to understand. Our men resolved to have him, and travelled two miles round. Until they met the Indian, who boldly stood his ground. Then speaks up Captain Lovewell, "Take you good heed," says he ; " This rogue is to decoy us, I very plainly see.
Page 77 - He's ta'en three locks o* her yallow hair, An' wi' them strung his harp sae fair. 26 The first tune he did play and sing, Was, "Farewell to my father the king.
Page 167 - That battery must silenced be!" He cried, as past he sped. Our colonel simply touched his cap, And then, with measured tread, To lead the crouching line once more The grand old fellow came. No wounded man but raised his...
Page 130 - Then having scalped the Indian, they went back to the spot, Where they had laid their packs down, but there they found them not, For the Indians having spied them, when they them down did lay, Did seize them for their plunder, and carry them away.
Page xii - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 161 - ... order ; Britannia shall not rule the Maine, Nor shall she rule the water, They've sung that song full long enough, Much longer than they oughter. The Aroostook's a right slick stream, Has nation sights of woodlands, And hang the feller that would lose His footing on such good lands. And all along the boundary line, There's pasturing for cattle ; But where that line of boundary is, We must decide by battle. We do not care about the land, But they shan't hook it from us ; • Our country, right...
Page 130 - These rebels lay in ambush, this very place hard by, So that an English soldier did one of them espy, And cried out, " Here's an Indian ! " With that they started out, As fiercely as old lions, and hideously did shout.
Page 135 - Then did the crimson streams that flowed Seem like the waters of the brook, That brightly shine, that loudly dash, Far down the cliffs of Agiochook.
Page 132 - But soon again returned, in fierce and furious mood, Shouting as in the morning, but yet not half so loud; For as we are informed, so thick and fast they fell, Scarce twenty of their number at night did get home well.
Page 120 - My father bound me to a trade In Waterford's own town; He bound me to a cooper there By the name of William Brown. I served my master faithfully For eighteen months or more; When I sailed on board the "Ocean Queen,