“Shove Around the Grog”

Description

Brief stories of bringing lumber downriver. Chorus: "Shove [or "Shore"] around the grog, boys, Chorus around the room; We are the boys that fear no noise, Although we're far from home."

Supplemental text

Shove Around the Grog
  Partial text(s)

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Shore Around the Grog

From Norman Cazden, Herbert Haufrecht, Norman Studer, Folk Songs
of the Catskills, #175, pp. 633-634. As transcribed by Mrs.
R. L. Wheelock.

We swung around old Butler's,
No danger did we fear
Until we came to Sawmill Rift
And went plumb against the pier.

  Refrain:
  And shore around the grog, boys,
  The chorus round the room,
  For we're the boys that fear no noise,
  Although we're far from home,
  And shore around the grog, boys,
  The chorus round the room,
  For we're the boys that fear no noise,
  Although we're far from home.

(1 additional stanza)

References

1. FSCatskills 175, "Shore Around the Grog" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. ST FSC175 (Partial)
3. BI, FSC175