Songs & Ballads Of The Maine Lumberjacks

A Collection Of Traditional & Folk Songs of the area with Lyrics & Commentaries -online book

	66             Songs and Ballads 2     In eighteen eighty-eight, When the flowers were a brilliant hue, I left my native country My fortune to pursue. 3     When I landed in New Brunswick, In that lumbering counteree, I hired to work in the lumber woods, Which proved my destiny. 4 Whilst loading two sleds from the yard, I received my deathly wound. 5     There is danger in the ocean, When the seas roll mountain high; There is danger on the battlefield, Where the angry bullets fly; 6     There is danger in the lumber woods And death lies solemn there, And I have fallen a victim Unto my monster snare. 7     Here's adieu l unto my father T is him who drove me here; I could not put up with him, His treatment drove me here. 1 The expression "Here's adieu, etc." is always sung as if it were "Here's a due against my father," and appears to be conceived as a curse upon the father. It is sung very sternly.