#river driver

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The Everyday Life of a Lumberjack and River Driver --James Annable

The Everyday Life of a Lumberjack and River Driver –James Annable

Photo from- thanks to Cathy & Terry Machin– Moore Lumber Co who Dugald New worked at as a cook and labourer.–The Postcard Courtship of Emma Buffam and Dugald New – Episode 3 It has seldom been our privilege to present a more comprehensive word picture of the everyday life of a lumberjack and river driver on the Upper Ottawa a half century ago, than that which comes to us today from the pen of…

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I'll eat when I am hungry and I'll drink when I am dry,

Get drunk whenever I'm ready, get sober by and by,

And if this river don't drown me, it's down I'll mean to roam,

For I'm a river driver and I'm far away from home.

[being-simba]

These guys are incredible. Love listening to this.

[nourlnecessary]

I was just the age of 16 when I first went on the drive

After six months' hard labour, at home I did arrive.

I courted with a pretty girl

T'was her caused me to roam.

Now I'm a river driver 

And I'm far away from home.

I’ll eat when I am hungry

and I’ll drink when I am dry,

Get drunk whenever I’m ready,

get sober by and by,

And if this river don’t drown me

it’s down I’ll mean to roam,

For I’m a river driver

and I’m far away from home.

I'll build a lonesome castle upon some mountain high

Where she can sit and view me as I go passing by

Where she can sit and view me as I go marching on.

For I'm a river driver

And I'm far away from home.

When I am old and feeble

And in my sickness lie

Just wrap me up in a blanket and lay me down to die

Just get a little blue bird to sing for me alone

For I'm a river driver 

and I'm far away from home.

[nourlnecessary]

I’ll eat when I am hungry

and I’ll drink when I am dry,

Get drunk whenever I’m ready,

get sober by and by,

And if this river don’t drown me

it’s down I’ll mean to roam,

For I’m a river driver

and I’m far away from home.

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[onesongonceaday]

This has been stuck in my head all week

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