Vermont Sugar-Maker's Song

DESCRIPTION: "When you see the vapor pillars lick the forest and the sky, You may know the days of sugar-making then are drawing nigh." Describes sugar-making; "Sweetest joys indeed we sugar-makers know." "Bubble, bubble... goes the pan." Use of sugar is advised
AUTHOR: Perrin B. Fiske ? (born 1837)
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Flanders/Brown-VermontFolkSongsAndBallads)
KEYWORDS: food work nonballad
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Flanders/Brown-VermontFolkSongsAndBallads, p. 33, "Vermont Sugar-Maker's Song" (1 text)
Linscott-FolkSongsOfOldNewEngland, pp. 238-239, "Maple Sweet" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia1, p. 26, "Maple Sweet, or, Vermont Sugar-Maker's Song" (1 text)
ST FlBr033 (Partial)
Roud #5444 and 3737
RECORDINGS:
Dudley Laufman, "Maple Sweet" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #661, recorded 09/02/2023)
File: FlBr033

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