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12 Jul 20 - 06:46 PM (#4063920) Subject: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: Joe Offer Doug Olsen sang this: Shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home I courted a girl in Albany One in Montreal One in Philadelphy But the best in Lewiston Falls So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home When you get to Albany Give the girls a call There's not a tart to be compared With the ones from Lewiston Falls So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home When I came on from Ireland I was just a lad But working these canal boats Is the only life I've had So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home A dollar in the tavern Is very easy spent If I'd had it in Ireland I'd have to pay down rent So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home Amsterdam or Liverpool Rome or Syracuse You'd ever been to Lewiston Falls It's the only place you'd choose So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home A drunkard in the tavern A fish is in the sea The cork is in the bottle But the whiskey is in me So shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home Oh shove around the jug me boys Around the room We're the boys that fear no noise Although we're far from home |
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12 Jul 20 - 06:59 PM (#4063923) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: Joe Offer Take a look at this page from Cliff Haslam: http://cliffhaslam.com/?page_id=318 |
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12 Jul 20 - 08:27 PM (#4063931) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: RTim Shove Around the Jug (Lewiston Falls) This song has gone through the folk process with roots in Maine. This version is situated on the Erie Canal in New York State and comes to me from Bonnie Milner who got it from John Mayberry of the Toronto Morris Men. Tim Radford |
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13 Jul 20 - 11:45 AM (#4064017) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: DonMeixner Definitely that iteration is an Erie Canal song. A little Canal History promotion here. My home is on the old canal and I am walking distance from the Jordan Lock. Syracuse has a wonderful canal museum in the last existing Weighlock on the canal. Definitely worth the trip if you are in Central New York. East bound on Interstate 90 from Rochester is an off ramp, no charge, to a beautiful canal Museum at Port Byron where you can walk through a lock and visit some canal structures that are being restored. Don |
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13 Jul 20 - 07:07 PM (#4064075) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: GUEST,anglo The late Jerry Epstein recoded this. His notes say he learned it from the singing of Frank Warner (though not from the collection). John Mayberry added two new verses. Well done John, it's a great song. As I recall, ithe chorus goes, "Shove around the grog boys, a chorus around the room…" |
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13 Jul 20 - 07:21 PM (#4064077) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: RTim My favorite line in almost ALL the songs I know, comes from this song : The cork is in the bottle, But the whiskey is in me! I love that line....and my Whisky (note the spelling....) Tim Radford |
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13 Jul 20 - 08:46 PM (#4064086) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: GUEST,Julia L From The Maine Woods Songster, p. 17. Phillips Barry, ed. Copyright © 1939 by Kate Puffer Barry. “Text (previously printed in Eckstorm and Smyth [Minstrelsy of Maine], 60) and tune from Mrs. Annie V. Marston, Charlestown, Maine.” |
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30 May 21 - 03:10 AM (#4108147) Subject: RE: Origins: Shove Around the Jug From: GUEST,Michael Shewmaker I can add some detail to the chain of transmission story. John Mayberry learned the song from me when we were both at Pinewoods. I think this was when I was on crew in either 1990 or 1991. My singing was quite hit and miss; John caught me on a good day. At that time, I'd forgotten who I'd learned it from. I'd already spent a few years bewildered about how I knew this song. I later confirmed with Jeff Warner that he'd taught it at a Pinewoods family week that I attended as a kid the 1970s. I learned the chorus as "Shove around the grog me boys, chorus around the room, for we're the boys who fear no noise although we're far from home". The "boys who fear no noise" line still resonates most. As already noted, John changed it from grog to jug and added the two excellent new verses. Somewhere I've got a copy of a cassette John put out that might clear up the dates. -- Michael Shewmaker |