Snaggin' the Klackin'

Hip-fa-lad-di-de!
Hip-fa-lad-di-de!
Graybacks, they are mighty thick.
A dollar a day
Is all they pay
For snaggin the Klackin' Crick

source: Beck, Lore of the Lumber Camps, #17, p 47.
singer: Fred Scribner
(no tune available)

Klacking Creek is one of several smaller streams flowing through the Ogemaw Hills timberland of Michigan (northwest of Saginaw).

-Joe-