“Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover”
Description
A mother bids farewell to her shanty-boy son on the banks of the Plover. She blesses him, but warns him that "Driving saw-logs on the Plover, You'll never get your pay." Eventually Johnny returns, having been driven from the camp without his pay
Notes
Sung to a variant of the tune "Tramps and Hawkers/Paddy West."
This song is item dC29 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW- RBW
Cross references
- cf. "The Falling of the Pine" (tune)
Recordings
- Pierre La Dieu, "Driving Saw-Logs On The Plover" (Columbia 15278-D, 1928)
References
- Rickaby 20, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Fowke-Lumbering #60, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Sandburg, pp. 396-397, "Driving Saw-Logs on the Plover" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, SAWLOGPL*
- Roud #2797
- BI, San396