- First Line
- Come all you hearty jokers that are standing there while I hum
- Roud No
- 9833
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- Source
- Memorial University Folklore Archive (MUNFLA) (St. John's, Newfoundland) acc. 78-239 / tape C3580A / counter 350
- Performer
- Benoit, Emile
- Place
- Canada : Newfoundland : Black Duck Brook
- Collector
- Goldstein, Kenneth S. / Thomas, Gerald
- Date collected
- 1978 (25 Jul)
- Format
- Sound recording
- Src Contents
- Audio
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- Performer characteristics
- Male
- Topics
- Three bums travel together, riding freight trains and occasionally working. They have cut spruce, turned their hand to the plough, dug for clams, and built dams in their time.
- Author / Composer
- Named Tune
- Notes
-
Spoken passage between stanzas 6 and 8: dialogue with an old woman, trying to get a meal.
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- Data imported from: Memorial University Folklore Archive (MUNFLA) Song Title Index http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/search/collection/munfla list
- Printer / Publisher
- Printer ID
- Repository
- Assoc Source
- Roud Bib ref
- X8631
- Type
- Song
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Relationships
- This record is referenced in the Roud Bibliography by X8631
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