Winter Desires

DESCRIPTION: Singer tells of the desires of loggers after the winter camp is broken up. They want good food (and lambast the camp cook), liquor, and new clothes. When they've run out of cash and the parties are over, they'll head back to the woods
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1941 (Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks)
KEYWORDS: lumbering work logger food drink cook
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 34, "Winter Desires" (1 text)
Roud #8853
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
NOTES [21 words]: From Beck: "Though all of the songs about the logger's desires are not accepted by the mails, this one...is respectable." - PJS
File: Be034

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