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Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine
This chapter is in the book Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION xi
  4. SONGS OF THE LUMBERJACKS
  5. The Jam at Gerry’s Rock 3
  6. The Alphabet Song 10
  7. Drinking Song 15
  8. The Logger’s Boast 18
  9. The West Branch Song 22
  10. Guy Read 24
  11. John Fergusson’s Crew 29
  12. Sandy Stream Song 31
  13. Canaday-I-O 37
  14. The Jolly Lumbermen 41
  15. Johnny Holmes 44
  16. The Boys of the Island 49
  17. The Lumberman’s Life 53
  18. The Lumberman in Town 58
  19. Meli Whitten 60
  20. Peter Ambelay 63
  21. The Days in Old Penobscot Stream 70
  22. OLD BALLADS AND OTHER PIECES
  23. The Twa Sisters 75
  24. Strawberry Lane 78
  25. Andrew Martine 80
  26. Mary Aclon 82
  27. In Blithe and Bonnie Fair Scotland 85
  28. Lowlands Low 88
  29. The Prentice Boy’s Love for Mary 90
  30. Fair Charlotte 94
  31. The Zebra Dunn 98
  32. The Dying Hobo 102
  33. Poor Old Horse 104
  34. Irish Song 107
  35. The Dark-Eyed Sailor 108
  36. The Jacket So Blue 111
  37. Far, Far at Sea 115
  38. The Flying Cloud 116
  39. HISTORICAL BALLADS AND SONGS
  40. Lovewell’s Fight, I 127
  41. Lovewell’s Fight, II 134
  42. Beside the Kennebec 140
  43. The Squatters of Maine 142
  44. The Constitution and the Guerriere 144
  45. Enterprise and Boxer 148
  46. You Parliament of England 151
  47. The Aroostook War 156
  48. The Soldiers’ Song 158
  49. Maine Battie Song 160
  50. The Cumberland Crew 162
  51. Bay Billy 166
  52. MAINE BROADSIDES
  53. When the Taters Are All Dug 173
  54. The Bangor Fire 176
  55. President Wilson 180
  56. Bar Harbor By the Sea 182
  57. Mount Hope Chapel 186
  58. Cathedral of Rheims 190
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674282360.c17

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. INTRODUCTION xi
  4. SONGS OF THE LUMBERJACKS
  5. The Jam at Gerry’s Rock 3
  6. The Alphabet Song 10
  7. Drinking Song 15
  8. The Logger’s Boast 18
  9. The West Branch Song 22
  10. Guy Read 24
  11. John Fergusson’s Crew 29
  12. Sandy Stream Song 31
  13. Canaday-I-O 37
  14. The Jolly Lumbermen 41
  15. Johnny Holmes 44
  16. The Boys of the Island 49
  17. The Lumberman’s Life 53
  18. The Lumberman in Town 58
  19. Meli Whitten 60
  20. Peter Ambelay 63
  21. The Days in Old Penobscot Stream 70
  22. OLD BALLADS AND OTHER PIECES
  23. The Twa Sisters 75
  24. Strawberry Lane 78
  25. Andrew Martine 80
  26. Mary Aclon 82
  27. In Blithe and Bonnie Fair Scotland 85
  28. Lowlands Low 88
  29. The Prentice Boy’s Love for Mary 90
  30. Fair Charlotte 94
  31. The Zebra Dunn 98
  32. The Dying Hobo 102
  33. Poor Old Horse 104
  34. Irish Song 107
  35. The Dark-Eyed Sailor 108
  36. The Jacket So Blue 111
  37. Far, Far at Sea 115
  38. The Flying Cloud 116
  39. HISTORICAL BALLADS AND SONGS
  40. Lovewell’s Fight, I 127
  41. Lovewell’s Fight, II 134
  42. Beside the Kennebec 140
  43. The Squatters of Maine 142
  44. The Constitution and the Guerriere 144
  45. Enterprise and Boxer 148
  46. You Parliament of England 151
  47. The Aroostook War 156
  48. The Soldiers’ Song 158
  49. Maine Battie Song 160
  50. The Cumberland Crew 162
  51. Bay Billy 166
  52. MAINE BROADSIDES
  53. When the Taters Are All Dug 173
  54. The Bangor Fire 176
  55. President Wilson 180
  56. Bar Harbor By the Sea 182
  57. Mount Hope Chapel 186
  58. Cathedral of Rheims 190
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