Johnny Holmes

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you jolly lumbermen, Wherever you may be.... It's of a jolly barber Which I am going to tell." The barber has worked for many lumber camps. The man somehow becomes rich enough to build two houses. The singer describes his looks and bad behavior
AUTHOR: probably at least partly the work of Jack McGinnis/McGuinness
EARLIEST DATE: 1902 (Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks)
KEYWORDS: logger hair
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks, pp. 44-48, "Johnny Holmes" (1 text)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 103-107, "The Little Barber" (1 text)
Ives-LarryGorman, p. 152, "(The Little Barber)" (1 excerpt, included because Larry Gorman apparently claimed it once although Ives agrees it is not his)
Roud #25208
File: Gray044

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