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Thread #173122   Message #4198213
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
28-Feb-24 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: Songs of hedges, woodland and craft..
Subject: RE: Songs of hedges, woodland and craft..
Old-time shantyboys may be heard singing on the recordings Lumbering Songs from the Ontario Shanties and Folksongs of the Miramichi.

Lumbering Songs from the Ontario Shanties Folkways FW04052, FM 4052

Canadian folk song authority Edith Fowke recorded men who decades earlier had ventured into the North Woods of Ontario to cut timber. Known as lumbermen, shanty boys, or lumberjacks, the men endured both cold and substantial danger. As many lumbermen lost their lives plying their trade, it is not surprising that a number of songs memorialize fallen comrades. Other songs relate everyday life in the lumber camps, the work, or leisure time in town. The songs in this collection are field recordings, many recorded in the lumbermen’s homes.

When the Shantyboy Comes Down
The Jam on Jerry's Rocks
How We Got Back to the Woods Last Year
Johnny Doyle
Jimmy Whelan
Turner's Camp
Hogan's Lake
Johnny Murphy
The Shantyboy's Alphabet
Jack Haggerty
Bill Dunbar
The Basketong
Johnny Stiles
The Backwoodsman
Harry Dunn
The Falling of the Pine
The Chapeau Boys
Save Your Money While You're Young

Shantymen and shantyboys; songs of the sailor and lumberman
by Doerflinger, William Main; Publication date 1951
https://archive.org/details/shantymenshantyb0000doer/page/n9/mode/2up
Topics Lumbermen -- Songs and music, Sea songs, Folk songs, Ballads, English -- United States, Ballads, English, Lumbermen, United States