Old Cass, The

DESCRIPTION: "For six long months we heard the crash As pine trees met their doom. At night we sang the songs we learned When driving to the boom." In spring, they put the logs on the river, filling the banks. Every year, the river "claimed A driver for her toll."
AUTHOR: Henry Dodge (source: Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (JournalOfAmericanFolklore 59, according to Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: logger travel hardtimes death river lumbering
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 15, "The Old Cass" (1 text)
Roud #18195
File: BeLo015

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