John Singleton [Laws C15]

DESCRIPTION: Singleton, chief sawyer in a lumber mill, is killed by the sawmill's machinery. His body is sent home to be buried.
AUTHOR: John Morrison?
EARLIEST DATE: 1941 (Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks)
KEYWORDS: logger death technology lumbering
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Laws C15, "John Singleton"
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 62, "John Singleton" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 73, "John Singgleton" (1 text)
DT 837, JONSINGL
Roud #2223
NOTES [62 words]: Laws quotes Beck to the effect that the song was by "John Morrison," but Paul Stamler observes that Beck spells the name "Morison." Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps, however, spells it "Morrison." Chances are that Dave D. Smith, who made the attribution, did not spell out the name, and Back and Laws used different spellings. Either that, or it's a typo in Beck's 1941 book. - RBW
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File: LC15

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