“A Winter on Renous”

Description

October 9, 1904, "rovin' Joe" leaves Indiantown for lumbering with the sons of Morgan Hayes. "They had no mercy on a man But to work him day and night." He tries other crews but returns to Hayes. "I spent a winter on Renous And now I love their ways"

Supplemental text

Winter on Renous, A
  Partial text(s)

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From Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson, Songs of Miramichi,
#48, pp. 187-190. From the singing of Nicolas Underhill of
Nor'west Bridge in 1961.


On the ninth day of October,
  In the year of nineteen-four,
The day I left old Indiantown,
  As I ofttimes did before.
I did not like the country,
  And I did not love their ways,
For to spend the winter on Renous
  With the sons of Morgan Hayes.

(11 additional stanzas plus a half stanza)

References

1. Manny/Wilson 48, "A Winter on Renous" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST MaWi048 (Partial)
3. Roud #9180
4. BI, MaWi048