Logging on Bear Fork

DESCRIPTION: "In 1845, I thought myself quite lucky to find myself alive," so the singer goes out skidding logs. He soon gets drunk and heads off to a dance. Eventually he and a friend sleep it off. The singer asks, "Don't tell no tales on me and Miss Heckert"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol5)
KEYWORDS: logger lumbering work music drink dancing floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol5, pp. 37-40, "Logging on Bear Fork" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7053
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys)" [Laws C19] (plot)
cf. "In Eighteen Forty-Nine" ("In17XX/18XX I found myself quite lucky to be alive" lyrics) and references there
NOTES [46 words]: This is so close to "The Backwoodsman (The Green Mountain Boys)" [Laws C19] that I probably would have considered it just a localized version. But Steve Roud, who is a lumper, splits them, so I too list it separately. But certainly see "The Backwoodsman" for similar songs. - RBW
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File: BWV5037

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