Keith and Hiles Line, The

DESCRIPTION: Description of life in a lumber-camp. A train arrives with "four hundred 'bohunks'" to work at the camp. Singer sings about the foreman and other loggers, and complains about the food; he longs to travel to the West, where he'll find a haystack to rest in
AUTHOR: Possibly Jerome Ford, father of singer Warde Ford, and his friend Kimball
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (USWolfRiver)
KEYWORDS: work lumbering worker food moniker | foreman
FOUND IN: US(MW)
Roud #5751
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Keith and Hiles Line" (1 text, 1 tune; on USWolfRiver)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter) and references there
NOTES [20 words]: In this case 'bohunks' supposedly refers to pick-and-shovel men or track-layers, rather than being an ethnic slur. - PJS
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