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III. 2. LUMBERJACKS AND TEAMSTERS |
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'*And hereys good luck to the shanty boys That makes the wild 'woods ringy For they cut the fine in the wintertime And drive it in the spring.** |
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uAll names I "will not mention, as you may understand, There were twenty-five or thirty, all good and noble meny All working with good courage while scattered to and fro, And it was their delight y coming home at night, to see the landings grow*
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It was early in the season in the sfring of '6 3, A freacher of the gosfel one morning came to me. Said hey "My jolly fellowy how would you like to go To sfend one winter pleasantly in Michigan-i-o?**
When we arrived in Saginawy in Michigan-i-o, We started for the camp, but the roads we did not knowy The dogs might laugh that our beds id ere on the snow, In the cold and frosty -morning we shivered with the cold, God grant there is no worser hell than Michigan-i-o. * Eckstorm and Smyth, Minstrelsy of Maine. |
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