Wild Lumberjack, The

DESCRIPTION: "One day I was out walking on the mountain... I happened to spy... A handsome young lumberjack... All dressed in white linen." The man recalls life in the woods. But he is "shot in the breast." He bids farewell to family and love, asks for water, and dies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (Korson-PennsylvaniaSongsAndLegends)
KEYWORDS: lumbering death lament burial dying funeral disease violence
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Friedman-Viking/PenguinBookOfFolkBallads, p. 424, "The Cowboy's Lament (The Streets of Laredo)" (2 texts, the second one being this)
Korson-PennsylvaniaSongsAndLegends, pp. 352-353, "The Wild Lumberjack" (1 text)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 201-202, "The Wild Lumberjack" (1 text)
Roud #7736
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Streets of Laredo" [Laws B1] (subject, meter) and references there
NOTES [27 words]: Clearly a version of "The Streets of Laredo" adapted to a logging situation. It is still so close to the original that earlier versions of the Index lumped them. - RBW
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File: KPL352

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