Tomah Stream

DESCRIPTION: The singer warns against drinking and hiring out to Tomah Stream. Instead of the easy work and good food he was promised, he finds mud roads, thin shelters, and poor and inadequate rations. He ends by exchanging insults with the boss Natty [Lamb].
AUTHOR: attributed to Larry Gorman (1846-1917)
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (Doerflinger)
KEYWORDS: logger work drink hardtimes boss
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 216-217, "Tomah Stream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-LarryGorman, pp. 106-108, 201, "Tomah Stream" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4074
NOTES [20 words]: Tomah stream is in eastern Maine, not far from the Canadian border.
This song is item dC53 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW- RBW
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File: Doe216

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