Jimmie Judd (The Beau Shai River) [Laws C4]

DESCRIPTION: Jimmie tries to break a logjam and is drowned. His badly cut up body is recovered the next day. He is mourned by sweetheart, family, and fellow workers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1935 (Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan)
KEYWORDS: logger death drowning
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Laws C4, "Jimmie Judd (The Beau Shai River)"
Warner-TraditionalAmericanFolkSongsFromAnneAndFrankWarnerColl 18, "Jamie Judge (or, Bonshee River)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner-FolkSongsAndBalladsOfTheEasternSeaboard, p. 73, "Jamie Judge" (1 text)
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 55, "The Beau Shai River" (2 texts, one entitled "Jimmie Jot")
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 82, "The Beau Shai River" (2 texts)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 112, "Jimmie Judd" (1 fragmentary text)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #29, "Jimmy Judge" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
DT 680, JIMJUDGE
Roud #636
NOTES [31 words]: Fowke quotes Gravelle to the effect that James Angus Dudge was born in Quebec in 1846, but Gravelle can only speculate about the date of his death; he suspects the date was c. 1866. - RBW
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