Those Leather-Headed Songsters

DESCRIPTION: "Ye lumber-laddies, great and small, unto us pray give an ear" to hear about "leather-headed songsters, who will mutilate a song." They produce "songs" with no metre or no rhyme. The lumbermen are good singers -- except the song-mutilators
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: music logger nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 174-175, "Those Leather-Headed Songsters" (1 text)
NOTES [54 words]: The man who supplied this to Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine said it had been popular in New Brunswick, but it's awfully learned (how many loggers would understand term for "metre"?). I rather suspect the contributor wrote it himself or had it from the author. That said, I certainly agree with the piece's sentiment! - RBW
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File: EcSm174

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