Canaday-I-O, Michigan-I-O, Colley's Run I-O [Laws C17]

DESCRIPTION: A group of lumbermen suffers a winter or cold and poor conditions. When winter ends, they joyfully return to their homes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks's ""The Jolly Lumbermen" version)
KEYWORDS: logger work separation lumbering
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (27 citations):
Laws C17a, "Canaday I-O"; C17b, "Michigan I-O"; C17c, "Colley's Run I-O (The Jolly Lumbermen)"
Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks, pp. 37-40, "Canaday-I-O" (1 text, plus sample stanzas from "The Buffalo Skinners," "Canada-I-O (The Wearing of the Blue; Caledonia)," and a railroading song all built on the same pattern); pp. 41-43, "The Jolly Lumbermen" (1 text, from Shoemaker)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 21-24, "Canaday-I-O" (2 texts)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia1, pp. 5-6, "Canada-I-O" (1 text)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 408-409, "Michigan-I-O" (1 text)
Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy 8, "Michigan-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 8, "Michigan-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 105, "Michigan--I-O" (1 text plus mention of 2 more, 1 tune)
Lewis-FavoriteMichiganFolkSongs,, p. 12, "Michigan-I-O" (1 short text, 1 tune, probably cut to eliminate the description of the bad times)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #2 , "Michigan-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Linscott-FolkSongsOfOldNewEngland, pp. 181-183, "Canaday-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach-TheBalladBook, pp. 773-775, "Canaday I. O. (The Buffalo Skinners)" (2 texts, but only the second goes with this piece; the other belongs with "The Buffalo Skinners" [Laws B10a])
Leach-HeritageBookOfBallads, pp. 171-172, "Canaday I O" (1 text)
Korson-PennsylvaniaSongsAndLegends, pp. 343-345, "The Jolly Lumbermen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, "The Jolly Lumbermen" (1 text) (pp. 76-78 in the 1919 edition)
Friedman-Viking/PenguinBookOfFolkBallads, p. 415, "Canaday-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke/Johnston-FolkSongsOfCanada, pp. 68-69, "Canaday-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thorp/Fife-SongsOfTheCowboys XV, pp. 195-218 (31-33), "Buffalo Range" (6 texts, 2 tunes, though the "B" text is "Boggy Creek," C and D appear unrelated, and E is "Canada-I-O")
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 57, "Canada-I-O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfNewEnglandFolklore, pp. 569-570, "Canada I O" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 1, "Michigan-I-O" (2 texts); 2, "Coolie's Run-I-O" (1 text)
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 109-115, "Michigan-I-O" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 5, "Michigan-I-O" (2 texts); 7 "Coolie's Run-I-O" (1 text)
Darling-NewAmericanSongster, pp. 179-181, "Canaday I-O" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 104, "Canada-I-O" (1 text)
DT 377, CANADIO* CANADI2 CANADIO2 CANADIO
ADDITIONAL: MacEdward Leach and Henry Glassie, _A Guide for Collectiors of Oral Traditions and Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania_, Pennsylvania historical and Museum Commission, 1973, pp. 36-37, "The Jolly Lumbermen" (1 text)
Roud #640
RECORDINGS:
L. Parker Temple, "Colley's Run I-O" (AFS, 1940s; on LC28)
Lester Wells, "Michigan I-O" (AFS, 1938; on LC56)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Buffalo Skinners" (Laws B10a)
cf. "Boggy Creek or The Hills of Mexico" [Laws B10b]
cf. "Shanty Teamster's Marseillaise"
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Jolly Lumbermen
NOTES [164 words]: The text known as "Canaday-I-O" is credited by Fowke and by Eckstorm to one Ephraim Braley, who worked in the Canadian woods in 1853. (The date 1853 is found in several versions.) Leach, in his notes to his #109, "Canadee-I-O," states that he based his song on the piece we have indexed as "Canada-I-O (The Wearing of the Blue; Caledonia)"-- though that song too appears to have been quite new at the time. Alan Lomax apparently accepts this interpretation, but also mentions the Scots song "Caledoni-o," which is also mentioned by Leach. Gray-SongsAndBalladsOfTheMaineLumberjacks also links this song to "Canada-I-O (The Wearing of the Blue; Caledonia)," and argues that that song came first, then this, and that this gave rise to "The Buffalo Skinners."
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania seems to consider it a variation on "Once More A-Lumbering Go," though I can't see any reason why.
Probably the whole complex deserves a more thorough examination than it has gotten. - RBW
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