Lumber Camp Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador V=video
Lumber Camp Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador V=video
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The term lumberjack is somewhat archaic, usually refering to a logger from an earlier time before the advent of chainsaws and other mechanized logging equipment. In those days lumberjacks were exclusively men who worked in lumber camps, often living a migratory life, following timber harvesting jobs as they opened. Their work was seasonal and usually involved living in bunkhouses or tents for months at a time. Lumber camps could be found wherever there were vast forests to be harvested and a demand for wood. Common equipment included the axe and the crosscut saw. The men of the lumber camps rapidly developed their own distinctive musical culture of work songs which were often sung on Sundays or in the evenings after supper and tool cleanup. Many were based on traditional European folk tunes, with lyrics that reflected the lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with the themes of cutting, hauling, rolling and driving, as well as narrative songs which involved romance. The songs migrated with the lumberjacks who sang them.
The Badger Drive (John Martin Devine) (Vx3) The Banks Of The Gaspereau (Collected by Kenneth Peacock) The Boys At Ninety-Five (Collected by Kenneth Peacock) Boys Of The Island (Ryan's Fancy) (V) Cut The Timber Down (Dick Nolan) (V) Double Sledder Lad (Jim Payne & Fergus O'Byrne) (V) Gerry Ryan (Collected by Kenneth Peacock) Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb) (Collected by MacEdward Leach) Jack Timmins (Collected by MacEdward Leach) The Jam On Gary's Rock (Collected by MacEdward Leach) The Jam On Jerry's Rock (Ryan's Fancy) (V) The Log Drivers Waltz (Wade Hemsworth) (Vx3) The Log Jam Song / White Water (Wade Hemsworth) (V) The Lumber Camp Song (Collected by Greenleaf & Mansfield) (V) The Lumberjack Song (Collected by MacEdward Leach) The Lumberman's Alphabet (Collected by MacEdward Leach) Peter Amberly (Collected by MacEdward Leach) (V) Peter Emberley (Collected by Edith Fowke) River Driver (Great Big Sea) (Great Big Sea) (Vx2) River Driver (Collected by MacEdward Leach) The River Driver's Lament (Collected by Kenneth Peacock) Twin Lakes (Jim Payne with Kelly Russell) (V) Twin Lakes (Collected by Kenneth Peacock) (V) |
