Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. The Jolly Shanty Boy
2. Shanty-Boy's Reveille
3. Song of the Pinewoods
4. Lumberjack's Prayer
5. Michigan-I-O
6. The Buffalo Song
7. Coolie's Run-I-O
8. I'm a Saginaw Valley Man
9. Don't Come to Michigan
10. Once More A-Lumbering Go
11. A Shantyman's Life
12. I Have Worked in the Woods
13. Alphabet Song
14. Lumbering on the Cass
15. The Old Cass
16. Driving Logs on the Cass
18. From Ogemaw
19. Turner's Camp on the Chippewa
20. Johnny Carroll's Camp
21. Boardman River Song
22. Camp Thirteen on the Manistee
23. Louie Sands and Jim McGee
24. Little Brown Bulls
25. Lumberjack's Revival
26. Great Lakes Limericks
27. Wright and Ketchum Line
28. Budd Lake Plains
29. The Greenhorn
30. By the Banks of the Manistee
31. Peter Ambelay
32. Sixteen Men in a Pine-Slab Bunk
33. A Horse Teamster
34. The Dam on Baldwin Creek
35. Save Your Money When You're young
36. When O'Connor Drew His Pay
37. Falling of the Pine
38. Shanty Boys in the Pine
39. Roasting Little Chipmunks
40. Curtis House at Jennings
41. Battle of '82
42. The Costly Crosshaul
43. Bringing Him in Alive
44. Ridin' the Smokestack
45. Paul Bunyan's Manistee
46. Paul Bunyan's Big Ox
47. Round River Drive
48. Longing
49. The Red-Light Saloon
50. The Flat River Girl
51. The Cowboy's Flat River Girl
52. The Little Eau Pleine
53. The Chippewa Girl
54. The Curst Wife
55. Old Kitarden
56. Bung Yer Eye
57. The Shanty Boy Wins
58. Shanty-Boy Dance Jingles
59. On the Banks of the Pamanaw
60. Wright Is Left
61. Just to Make a Change in Business
62. Ole from Norway
63. Ay Ban a Svede
64. On Meesh-e-gan
65. Ole Pete Bateese
66. The Wreck of the Julie Plante
67. Ze Skunk
68. Six Whistles
69. The Jam on Gerry's Rocks
70. The Death of Harry Bradford
71. Wild Mustard River
72. John Robertson
73. John Singleton
74. Harry Dunn
75. Harry Bail
76. Chance McGear
77. Les Reeder
78. Jimmie Whalen
79. Jimmie Whalen's Girl
80. The Wreck on Covel's
81. 'Twas on the Napanee
82. The Beau Shai River
83. The McDonald Family
84. The Man from Conner's Crew
85. Shanty Boy's Ill Fate
86. Grouchy Bill
87. Ed's Thoughts
88. Jim Brooks
89. The Kid
90. Pat Malloy
91. The Hell-bound Train
92. The Old Bog Hole
93. One Day of Turkey and Six Days of Hash
94. The Wild Colonial Boy
95. Bold Jack Donohue.
96. Johnnie Troy
97. The Fate of the Cumberland Crew
98. Minnie Quay
99. Lake Huron's Rock-bound Shore
100. The Indian's Lament
101. Boys, Stay Away from the Girls
102. Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door
103. My Scolding Wife
104. Timekeeper's Lament
105. Paddy Hart
106. Up on Elk Lake
107. Coe Creek Song
108. Peaslee's Lumber Crew
109. Hall's Lumber Crew
110. Adams's Crew
111. Dempsey's Lumber Camp
112. 'Way Down near Alpena
113. Just a Poor Lumberjack
114. Drunk on the Way
115. Dick Derrick's Rear
116. Jut Gannon
117. Old David Ward
118. Perry Allen
Tall Tales From Tall Timber
Bibliography
Index Of Ballads and Songs
Index Of Music and Tunes
