The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45420   Message #672598
Posted By: lamarca
20-Mar-02 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Shanty-Boy on the Big Eau Claire
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire
Art, my husband learned this from your KM recording and has been performing it for several years (thanking you as his source). It's one of my favorite ballads, since I grew up in Wisconsin.

Our friend Judy Cook stopped in Fond du Lac (or, as we cheeseheads say it, Fondalack) while on tour in Wisconsin. For a joke, she went to a hat shop, where she purchased a night-cap made of imitation lace from the milliner's daughter and brought it back and gave it to us...