A couple more things to add quickly. E C Beck in "Lore of the Lumber Camp" has 5 text versions of "The Flat River Girl", noe of which have extra couplets in the stanzas. They have as few as 5 and as many as 12 verses. Beck describes it as probably the third most popular song among Michigan lumberjacks, behind "Jam at Gerry's Rock" and the "Lumberman's Alphabet". He says the song is sung to several tunes and he could not dtermine what tune McGinnis originally used. The tunes Edith Fowke collected in Ontario were mostly variations of "Villikens & His Dinah"

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