Les, from the "Frozen Logger"
My lover came to see me upon one freezing day;
He held me in his fond embrace which broke three vertebrae.

He kissed me when we parted, so hard that he broke my jaw;
I could not speak to tell him he'd forgot his mackinaw.

I saw my lover leaving, sauntering through the snow,
Going gaily homeward at forty-eight below.

It's a coat commonly used by lumbermen among others.


Elizabeth LaPrelle's new (2nd) CD "Lizard In The Spring" where she does a fabulous redition of "Mole In The Ground" she says comes from a recording of Green Bailey from 1929 which she "shifted a bit with her recollections of Doc Watson's version. Her's is very similar to Q's posted above.
I do something closer to what John MacKechoen (Sp?sorry) does, I'm fonder of Campy & "been locked up in the pen with those banjo picking men" version.

Barry