Lumberman's Drinking Song

DESCRIPTION: "'Tis when we do go into the woods, Drink round, brave boys! (x2)... 'Tis when we go... Jolly brave boys are we. 'Tis when we go... We look for timber, and that which is good." The woodsmen chop, the haulers haul -- and the merchants sell to the loggers
AUTHOR: John S. Springer? (source: Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks)
EARLIEST DATE: 1851 (Springer, _Forest Life and Forest Trees_, according to Gray and Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: logger lumbering work drink commerce river
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks, pp. 15-17, "Drinking Song" (1 text)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 38-39, "Drink Round, Brave Boys" (1 text)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp.101-103, "Lumberman's Drinking Song" (1 text) (pp. 90-91 in the 1919 edition)
ADDITIONAL: John S. Springer _Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers, and Wild-wood Adventure ; with Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick_, Harper & Brothers, 1861 (available on Google Books and Project Gutenberg), pp. 152-154 "(no title)" (1 text)
Roud #15000
File: Gray015

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