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256 Ballads and Songs of Michigan
6 U for the underwear, flannel and red,
V for the valley in which we lie our dead,
W the woods we leave every year,
X stands for nothing a logger would hear.
7 Y stands for the yells when the timber comes down, Z for the zither and dances in town. |
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B
Sung in 1934 by Mr. Karl Jensen, Pentwater, who had learned the song from hearing it in lumber camps about Manistee, where he had worked in the nineties.
A complete text very similar to A. |
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Sung in 1932 by Mr. Bert Eddy, Romeo, who had learned the song twenty years earlier from the singing of Mr. John Hunt of the West Branch lumber camp.
A complete text very similar to A. |
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Sung in 1935 by Mrs. Blanche Gibbs, West Branch; she learned the song from her father, Mr. Joe Sova, who worked in lumber camps with the Saginaw gang; he said the song was composed in one of these camps.
A complete text very similar to A except that "X Y Z is the Saginaw gang." |
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E
Sung in 1935 by Mr. Fred Buckingham, West Branch. A fragment very similar to part of A. |
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F
Sung in 1935 by Mrs. Julia Malone, Parnell, eighty-one years old. A fragment similar to part of A. |
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