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The Teamster In Jack Macdonald’S Crew, Joseph Walsh
The Teamster In Jack Macdonald’S Crew, Joseph Walsh
Maine Song and Story Sampler
When Walsh sang "The Teamster in Jack MacDonald's Crew" for Sandy Ives, it was a song he had never heard before and did not hear from anyone after, despite his best efforts to find it. Walsh either learned the song while working near Katahdin Iron Works around 1911 or from a friend back on PEI, he was not entirely sure.
The Bull Moose Song, Linwood Brown
The Bull Moose Song, Linwood Brown
Maine Song and Story Sampler
"The Bull Moose Song" is a local lumber camp satire, with the joke at the expense of the operator, Frankie Malcolm.
The Man Who Plucked The Gorbey, Charles Sibley
The Man Who Plucked The Gorbey, Charles Sibley
Maine Song and Story Sampler
Of all the stories told in lumbercamps, few have captured the attention of Maine’s folklorists like the story of “The Man Who Plucked the Gorbey.“ The gorbey, one of many names for the Canada Jay (also known as a moosebird, meat bird, gray jay, or Whiskey Jack), is a native of the northern coniferous forests of North America.