“Joe Brook”
Description
The singer leaves Grey Rapids in October 1924 and takes the train for Deersdale to go logging with Coughlan on Joe Brook. The crew has men from every country. Key men in the crew are named.
Supplemental text
Joe Brook
Partial text(s)
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The Joe Brook Song
From Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson, Songs of Miramichi,
#25 pp. 120-121. From the singing of Wilmot MacDonald, Glenwood,
1958.
It was Friday in October,
Nineteen and twenty-four,
I left dear old Grey Rapids
WIth a half-a-dozen more,
I took the train for Deersdale,
A place I did not know,
For to work up in the lumber woods,
With Cough-a-lans did go.
(7 additional stanzas, with some spoken parts)
Notes
Manny/Wilson: The song "describes life at Coughlan's Camp in a lumber operation for Geo. Burchill & Sons of South Nelson" near the Miramichi River. - BS
References
- Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 77-80, "Joe Brook" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Manny/Wilson 25, "The Joe Brook Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ST IvNB077 (Partial)
- Roud #1948
- BI, IvNB077