Them Days is Gone Forever

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you old loggers and list to my tale As I weep on the shoulder of time." The singer recalls when "timber was common and plenty and cheap." "But nowadays timber is sold by the feet"; it's all micromanagement; "the glamour has gone to the dogs"
AUTHOR: Words: O. L. Ufavise (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: logger hardtimes technology | nostalgia
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 511-512, "Them Days Is Gone Forever" (1 text)
File: LDC511

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