Old-Time Lumberjacks

DESCRIPTION: "We sit around the camp at night when the daily work is o'er And listen to the lumberacks who logged in days of yore." The old lumberjacks claim that everything was bigger in the old days. The singer doubts it, but expects to tell his own tales in time
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1940 (Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin)
KEYWORDS: nonballad logger talltale
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, p. 86, "Old-Time Lumberjacks" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: David C. Peterson, "Wisconsin Folksongs," chapter in _Badger History: Wisconsin Folklore_, State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Volume XXV, Number 2, November 1973), pp. 59-60, "Old-Time Lumberjacks" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve" (theme) and references there
File: Pet086

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