Driving Logs on Schoodic

DESCRIPTION: "John Ross from off the drive has fled, He has left the molasses and the bread, He's eaten bean-swagan till he's nearly dead, All on the banks of Schoodic." There is a bad storm; the Schoodic is a hard river to travel
AUTHOR: (credited to Frank Staples by informant William L. Powers)
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine); reportedly learned 1875
KEYWORDS: logger river hardtimes food escape
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, p. 63, "Driving Logs on Schoodic" (1 text)
File: EkSm063

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