The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153440   Message #3606461
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Mar-14 - 12:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Logging and Shantyman Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Logging and Shantyman Songs
"The Banks of the Little Eau Pleine," Rickaby text A, sung by Wm. N. Allen, is posted in thread 45123, by raredance. It is a full version of an abbreviated one in the DT.
Little Eau Pleine

The song appears under the title "Johnny Murphy," with musical score as sung by John Leahy of Ontario, in Edith Fowke, "Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods." The Wisconsin River becomes the West Constant. The Eau Pleine is a tributary of the Wisconsin River, near Stevens Point. Fowke notes that all versions stem from the original by Allen ("Shan T. Boy").