Paul Bunyan's Manistee

DESCRIPTION: "Paul Bunyan, the lumberman, came from St. Paul. he owned a big ox that was eleven feet tall." The singer, from Bay City, is out of work and joins Bunyan's crew. He greases Bunyan's huge griddle with ham strapped to his ankles and does other absurd jobs
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1948 (Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps)
KEYWORDS: talltale work
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 73-75, "Paul Bunyan's Manistee" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps, pp. 121-122, "Paul Bunyan's Manistee" (1 text)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 458, "Paul Bunyan's Manistee" (1 text)
Roud #6522
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Paul Bunyan" (subject) and references there
NOTES [43 words]: Beck's version of this (seemingly the only one in existence) has this to the Derry Down tune. Yet I heard the first verse, at least, sung, with a tune very close to the verse of "The Strawberry Roan," and no refrain. WIsh I remembered where I heard it! - RBW
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