Our Singing Country
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THE LITTLE BROWN BULLS
eo. No. 2265. Carl Lathrop, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 1939. Through the courtesy of Dr. E. C. Beck, Central State Teachers College, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Dr. Beck has an unsurpassed collection of lumberjack songs. See Ri, p. 655 Go, p. $6.
"When you get to the last of the song, you speak the words so that everyone will know the song is ended> at least I suppose that's why you do it. Anyhow, whether that is why or not, that's what all the old-time woods singers I ever heard always did.n
—Bill McBride, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. |
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* In this and similar songs of "come-all-ye" character, extended tones and extended or inserted rests vary widely from stanza to stanza, both in length and in position.
I Not a thing on the river McCloskey did fear As he pulled the stick o'er the big spotted steers; They were young, quick and sound, girting eight feet and three. Said McCloskey, the Scotchman, "They're the laddies for me."
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