Twin Lakes

DESCRIPTION: "As I was sitting in my own cozy corner, Thinking all on a few dollars to make, My wife says ... They're making good wages up on the Twin Lakes." He finds the contractors "keep you right down with their foot on your neck ... keep clear ... of Twin Lakes"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland)
KEYWORDS: lumbering hardtimes logger work money
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland 161, "Twin Lakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Peacock, pp. 761-762, "Twin Lakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Doyle-OldTimeSongsAndPoetryOfNewfoundland, "Twin Lakes" (1 text, 1 tune): pp. 79-80 in the 3rd edition
Blondahl-NewfoundlandersSing, p. 51, "Twin Lakes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #17693
RECORDINGS:
Omar Blondahl, "Twin Lakes" (on NFOBlondahl02, NFOBlondahl03)
Frankie Nash, "The Shores Of Grand Lake" (on ITMA/CapeShoreNL)
Arthur Nicolle, "Twin Lakes" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jerry Ryan" (theme)
cf. "The Track to Knob Lake" (lyrics)
NOTES [105 words]: The AND [Anglo-Newfoundland Development] company was involved in logging across Newfoundland.
Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland says "most of the lumbering is let out to individuals who do it under contract, and 'subbing' means to take a sub-contract. Twin Lakes is in the interior of the island [Newfoundland]."
The ITMA/CapeShoreNL text is very close to the Greenleaf/Mansfield-BalladsAndSeaSongsOfNewfoundland text, AND company and all. The two locations are both in the northern interior of Newfoundland. - BS
Other songs that mention AND are "The Badger Drive" and "The Business of Makin' the Paper." - RBW
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