Jim Brooks

DESCRIPTION: "What became of Jim Brooks, did you ask me?" The singer doesn't know, but thinks he is in a land without logs or snow. When the child of a logger wants to see the trees being cut, a log falls toward him. Jim saves the boy but dies himself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan)
KEYWORDS: logger rescue death children
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 162-164, "Jim Brooks" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 88, "Jim Brooks" (1 text)
Roud #6512
File: BBun162

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