“Burns's Log Camp”
Description
The singer arrives in the logging camp to find horrible conditions: "The floors were all dirty, all covered with mud; The bed quilts were lousy, and so was the grub." The very first night, a fight erupted, "And thus I was greeted at Burns's log camp."
Supplemental text
Burns's Log Camp
Partial text(s)
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[Bruce's Log Camp]
From Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson, Songs of Miramichi,
#7, pp. 66-67. From the recitation of Wilbert Munn of Hayesville.
Trough alders and boulders and bushes I tramped
'Til I came to the place they call Bruce's log camp.
I opened the door, what a sight met my eyes,
Some cursing, some swearing, and some telling lies.
A three-legged stool and a table to match,
And a door in the corner without any latch,
No lids on the stove and no oil in the lamps;
That is the description of Bruce's log camp.
(1 additional stanza)
Notes
Manny/Wilson: "Mr Doerflinger tactfully changed the name of the camp from Bruce's to Burns's, to avoid giving offense." - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
References
- Doerflinger, p. 217, "Burns's Log Camp" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Manny/Wilson 7, "Bruce's Log Camp (Hunter's Log Camp)" (3 fragments, 1 tune)
- ST Doe217 (Partial)
- Roud #9203
- BI, Doe217