Old Riverman's Regret, The

DESCRIPTION: "The romance has gone from the river towns, The rafts they come now more." In the old days, when the rivers turned brown, the logs came with them -- but those days are over, and the old loggers sit around and remember the "Golden Age"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: logger work river
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 258-259, "The Old Riverman's Regret" (1 text)
Roud #15011
File: Shoe258

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