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Glou Glou Glou, Allan Kelly
Glou Glou Glou, Allan Kelly
Maine Song and Story Sampler
"Glou" appears in Helen Creighton's collection of Acadian folksongs, La Fleur du Rosier, as the "B" version of a song called "Le Matin Quand je me Leve," or "In the Morning When I Get Up." Both are versions of a French song well-known in French Canada and Louisiana, with a version dating back to at least 1658.
The Headless Ghost, Wilmot Macdonald
The Headless Ghost, Wilmot Macdonald
Maine Song and Story Sampler
“The Headless Ghost” is a common story told with too many variations to count.
Guy Reed, Philip Walsh
Guy Reed, Philip Walsh
Maine Song and Story Sampler
"Guy Reed" is one of several songs by one of the great woods songmakers in Maine and the Maritimes, Joe Scott. Guy Reed, son of Joseph and Remember Mitchell Reed, was born in 1874 in the Byron, Maine area, and died in a logging accident just a few miles above Livermore Falls, Maine, on September 9, 1897.
Benjamin Deane, Chester Price
Benjamin Deane, Chester Price
Maine Song and Story Sampler
“Benjamin Deane” is a classic example of a confessional ballad, with a man in prison lamenting how he came to be there: bootlegging, adultery, and murder.
The Cambric Shirt, Jennie Gray
The Cambric Shirt, Jennie Gray
Maine Song and Story Sampler
"The Cambric Shirt" is one of the many British ballads chronicled by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The song is titled "The Elfin Knight" in Child's collection, and "The Cambric Shirt" is one of many names of the many variations on the song.
The Man Who Plucked The Gorbey: A Maine Woods Legend, Edward D. Ives
The Man Who Plucked The Gorbey: A Maine Woods Legend, Edward D. Ives
Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers
The Canada Jay labors under the official name of Perisoreus canadensis canadensis but it is more commonly called gorbey, moose-bird, meat-bird, greasebird, Whiskey Jack, Whiskey John, Hudson Bay bird, caribou bird, venison hawk, grey jay, woodsman's friend, or camp robber. Maine woodsmen usually call it either gorbey or moose-bird. It is a native of the northern coniferous forests, which means that it is found all through Canada but only in the northernmost areas of the northernmost states of the Union. In the Northeast, it is found in northern Maine and over most of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Ernest Thompson …