RIver Driver's Burial, The

DESCRIPTION: "They drew him from his watery bed, And shrouded him with kindly are." They bury the young driver. The song recalls what he was like before he died. "A dark young maid" was waiting for him, but "his hopes and schemes of earth [are] all o'er"
AUTHOR: John S. Springer?
EARLIEST DATE: 1851 (Springer)
KEYWORDS: death burial love separation river
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 96-97, "The River Driver's Burial" (1 text) (p. 81 in the 1919 edition)
ADDITIONAL: John S. Springer _Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers, and Wild-wood Adventure ; with Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick_, Harper & Brothers, 1861 (available on Google Books and Project Gutenberg), p. 163, "Burial of a River-Driver" (1 text)
File: Shoe096

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