NOte that Chirs Shaw's extra verse is clearly derived from the version printed by Gray. Franz Rickaby in "Ballads and Songs of the Shantey-Boy" (1926 Harvard Univ Press) contains a regionalized version of the first verse and a somewhat different set of words corresponding to verse 6 in Gray.

Come all ye sons of freedom throught old Michigan<
Come all ye gallant lumbermen, list to a shanty-man.
On the banks of the Muskegon, where the rapid waters flow
O! we'll range the wildwoods o'er while a-lumbering we go.

When spring it does come and our ice-bound streams are free,
We will drive our logs to market our southern friends to see.
Our sweethearts they will welcome us, their eyes with rapture glow;
We'll spend the summer with them and again a-lumbering go.

Edith Fowke in "Lumbering Songs of the North Woods" (1970 American Folklore Society) includs a song "A-Lumbering We Go" which is actually a composite song. The first verse is the same as the Michigan verse from Rickaby (above). the second verse is the "music of our burnished ax" verse from the Gray text. The last four verses are from a totally different song called "Bung Your Eye"

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