Lore of the lumber camps.
| Author/creator | Beck, Earl Clifton |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Edition | [Rev. and enl. ed. |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor] : Univ. of Michigan Press, 1948. |
| Description | xii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | University of Michigan studies and publications University of Michigan. Studies and publications. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The jolly shanty boy -- Shanty-Boy's reveille -- Song of the pinewoods -- Lumberjack's prayer -- Michigan-I-O -- The buffalo song -- Coolie's Run-I-O -- I'm a Saginaw valley man -- Don't come to Michigan -- Once more a-lumbering go -- A shantyman's life -- I have worked in the woods -- Alphabet song -- Lumbering on the cass -- The old cass -- Driving logs on the cass -- Snaggin' the klackin' -- From Ogemaw -- Turner's camp on the Chippewa -- Johnny Carroll's camp -- Boardman river song -- Camp thirteen on the Manistee -- Louie Sands and Jim McGee -- Little brown bulls -- Lumberjack's revival -- Great lakes limericks -- Wright and the Ketchum line -- Budd Lake plains -- The greenhorn -- By the banks of the Manistee -- Peter Ambelay -- Sixteen men in a pine-slab bunk -- A horse teamster -- The dam on Baldwin creek -- Save your money with you're young -- When O'Connor drew his pay -- Falling of the pine -- Shanty boys in the pine -- Roasting little chipmunks -- Cutis house at Jennings -- Battle of '82 -- The costly crosshaul -- Bringing him in alive -- Ridin' the smokestack -- Paul Bunyan's manistee -- Paul Bunyan's big ox -- Round river drive -- Longing -- The red-light saloon -- The flat river girl -- The cowboy's flat river girl -- The little Eau Pleine -- The Chippewa girl -- The curst wife -- Old Kitarden -- Bung yer eye -- The shanty boy wins -- Shanty-boy dance jingles -- On the banks of the Pamanaw -- Wright is left -- Just to make a change in business -- Ole from Norway -- Ay ban a Svede -- On Meesh-e-gan -- Ole Pete Bateese -- The wreck of the Julie Plante -- Ze skunk -- Six whistles -- The jam on Gerry's rocks -- The death of Harry Bradford -- Wild Mustard river -- John Robertson -- John Singleton -- Harry Dunn -- Harry Bail -- Chance McGear -- Les Reeder -- Jimmie Whalen -- Jimmie Whalen's girl -- The wreck on Covel's -- 'Twas on the Napanee -- The Beau Shai river -- The McDonald family -- The man from Conner's crew -- Shanty boy's ill fate -- Grouchy Bill -- Ed's thoughts -- Jim Brooks -- The kid -- Pat Malloy -- The hell-bound train -- The old bog hole -- One day of turkey and six days of hash -- The wild colonial boy -- Bold Jack Donohue -- Johnnie Troy -- The fate of the Cumberland crew -- Minnie Quay -- Lake Huron's rock-bound shore -- The Indian's lament -- Boys, stay away from the girls -- Never take the horseshoe from the door -- My scolding wife -- Timekeeper's lament -- Paddy Hart -- Up on Elk lake -- Coe creek song -- Peaslee's lumber crew -- Hall's lumber crew -- Adams's crew -- Dempsey's lumber camp -- 'Way down near Alpena -- Just a poor lumberjack -- Drunk on the way -- Dick Derrick's rear -- Jut Gannon -- Old David Ward -- Perry Allen. |
| General note | Ballads and songs, some with music (principally unaccompanied melodies) |
| General note | First pub. in 1941 under title: Songs of the Michigan lumberjacks. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 343-344. |
| LCCN | 49007123 |