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Thread #109508 Message #3593905
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Jan-14 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Save Your Money While You're Young
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save Your Money While You're Young
The DT text is copied from the version in Edith Fowke, from the singing of Jim Doherty, Ontario.
With musical score, pp. 206-207; Edith Fowke, 1970, "Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods," American Folklore Society, Univ. Texas Press.
Another version, without the first verse of the DT song (Doherty), is printed on p. 95, in E. C. Beck, "Lore of the Lumber Camps," Univ. Michigan Press.
More than one tune has been used for the song; the Doherty version is similar to "Young Conway."