John Driscoll - On the Road to Bartibogue (Bartibog)

 Lyrics transcribed from this recording:Come all you jolly gents if you want to have a holiday,and meet me at the ferry in the good ol' summertime.We'll take the road to Bartibogue and on it we will stray,For I do know many places and oh so many faces,I tell you boys we'll have some fun in the good ol' summertime.First we stop at [Plottickman's? upon the newer's line?] [Bud McMahon's up on the new line?]For he's a jolly good fellow, he'll sing and dance as any man in the days gone by,I tell you boys we'll have some fun in the good ol' summertime.We'll take the road to Greenbrook and on it we will stray,Until we come to Cody's [i.e. Cote's?] you're always welcome there,<BR>Where there's lots of moose and caribou [whiskey in tree?],<BR>I tell you boys we'll have some fun in the good ol' summertime.<BR><BR>The supper it is over we'll clear the kitchen floor,<BR>For there's lots of lovely dancers and fiddlers by the score,<BR>I tell you boys will rip the boards right of the floor in the good old summertime.<BR><BR>[vocables to a different tune than previous part of the song]<BR><BR>I went to the woods and caught a squirrel, <BR>I brought him home behind me,<BR>I really thought my heart would break for the girl I left behind me.<BR><BR>[same vocables again]<BR><BR>We'll all turn back...if all the rest would join me, <BR>we'll all turn back and we'll all join hands for the girl I left behind.<BR><BR>[vocables]<BR> <BR>This song is sung a cappella. The singer taps his foot throughout the song. At several point the singer sings out the tune with vocables. <BR>This song is about having some fun in the good old summertime. The audience laughs a bit whenever Mr. Driscoll sings using vocables ("chin music").

<BR>At the end of the song (around 04:30) there are a number of electronic sounding blips.

Although I cannot find any information on this song, suggesting it may be a Miramichi original, it is worth noting that some of the "stock phrases" that appear are common in tin pan alley and early folk songs: e.g., "good old summertime" (1902 tin pan alley song, In the Good Old Summertime) and "girl I left behind" ("The Girl I Left Behind Me", an old folk song sung by Ray and Frank Estey from around Miramichi).

1967 <BR> <BR> 057-02