Amos. "Blue Mountain Lake" is a lumbering song. "Old Griffin", in the ballad, owned the Griffin Lumber Company in Glens Falls, NY. Even owned a radio station, WGLC, on the wall of which - according to the late and much-missed "Daddy Dick" Richards - a copy of the ballad was posted. It is a floating song, though. I sing two versions, with two different casts of characters, and know of at least two others, one involving not BML but Lake Bomoseen in VT. Alas, I've no text for that one.

Dave, I'd love to hear your "Johnny Troy" sometime. What tune do you use ? Bad question for me to ask, really, as I can't offhand give you another name for the tune I use. My text comes from the same source. My recollection is that Ezra "Fuzzy" Barheidt (sp ?), whom Ellen Steckert recorded down in the southern tier, also sang it, and that I use another tune of his that I liked better. Too late at night to go digging. I'll check later.

-G