“How We Got Up to the Woods Last Year”

Description

"Come all you lads that would like to hear How we got up to the woods last year." The singer and colleagues gather (to go logging). They hire a coach and feel grand. They perhaps get drunk. They arrive.

Notes

This is about as interesting as the description implies; even Fowke admits that the song lacks "any dramatic incident."

The chorus is shared, in general form, with "Rantin', Roarin', Drunk on the Way" -- but the plot is different; it appears to be simply a case of the cross-fertilization so common among lumbering songs. - RBW

Same tune

• Conroy's Camp (File: FowL46)

Cross references

• cf. "Conroy's Camp" (tune, lyrics, theme)
• cf. "Rantin', Roarin', Drunk on the Way" (lyrics)

Recordings

• O. J. Abbott, "How We Got Back to the Woods Last Year" (on Lumber01)

References

1. Fowke-Lumbering #45, "How We Got Up to the Woods Last Year" (2 texts, 1 tune)
2. Fowke/MacMillan 22, "How We Got Up to the Woods Last Year" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Roud #3676
4. BI, FowL45