Farmer and the Shanty Boy, The

DESCRIPTION: Two girls compare their fiancees. The farmer's sweetheart praises her love because he is always at home. The other girl points out that the shanty boy always comes home with his pay, while bad crops can ruin a farmer. The farmer's girl concedes the point
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1902 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: love work dialog logger farming lumbering
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,So) Canada(Mar,Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES (21 citations):
Rickaby-BalladsAndSongsOfTheShantyBoy 10, "The Shanty-boy and the Farmer's Son" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 10, "The Shanty-boy and the Farmer's Son" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 88-89, "The Shanty Boy and the Farmer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 106, "The Mossback" (1 text plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Dean-FlyingCloud, pp. 51-52, "Shanty Boy" (1 texxt)
Warner-TraditionalAmericanFolkSongsFromAnneAndFrankWarnerColl 33, "Shanty Boy, Farmer Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 27-28, "The Shany Boy and the Farmer's Son" (1 text)
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, p. 258, "Shanty-Girl" (1 text)
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 221-223, "The Shanty Boy" (1 text)
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, pp. 443-445, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Henry/Huntingdon/Herrmann-SamHenrysSongsOfThePeople H676, p. 45, "Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #52, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Vikár/Panagapka-SongsNorthWoodsSungByOJAbbott 23, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-FolksongsOfNewBrunswick, pp. 20-23, "The Farmer's Son and the Shantyboy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-AmericanBalladsAndFolkSongs, pp. 446-447, "The Shanty-Boy and the Farmer's Son" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 53, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 42, "Trenton Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, pp. 193-197, "The Shanty Boy and the Mossback" (1 text, 1 tune)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 57, "The Shanty Boy Wins" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Ballard/Brown/Barry-NewGreenMountainSongster, pp. 166-169, "The Farmer and the Shanty Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SHANTYBO*
Roud #670
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "The Shanty boy" (AFS 4202 B2, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Peter Amberley" [Laws C27] (tune)
cf. "Soldier Boy for Me (A Railroader for Me)" (theme: professional comparison) and references there
cf. "The Farmer" (theme)
cf. "I Love My Sailor Boy" (theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Shanty Boy Wins
The Mossback
File: Wa033

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