“Trimble's Crew”

Description

"Oh, it's of a pair of jobbers who had a jolly time All in some old log shanty where the jobbers settle down." A disjointed song describing the work in Trimble's camp and how hard the life is: "A man who'd work for Trimble might better be in jail."

Supplemental text

Trimble's Crew
  Partial text(s)

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From Edith Fowke, Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods, #8, p. 42.
Collected from Calvin Kent of Haliburton, Ontario, May 1965.

Oh, it's of a pair of jobbers who had a jolly time
All in some old log shanty where the jobbers settle down.
All in some old log shanty where these jobbers settle down;
It was in this old log shanty with the trees all close around.

(5 additional stanzas)

Cross references

• cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme, tune)

References

1. Fowke-Lumbering #8, "Trimble's Crew" (1 text, tune referenced)
2. ST FowL08 (Partial)
3. Roud #4467
4. BI, FowL08