Douglas MacDonald (?) - Wild Mustard River

Recorded by Stan Cassidy - Phone 1528 - for Radio and Electrical Service - 415 King Street, Fredericton, N.B.

 The song is sung a cappella.This song is about a log jam on the Wild Mustard River in which one of the drivers, Johnny Doyle, is killed and his comrades bury him along the banks. This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (023-05). The last words of the song, hope that his spirit's with God, are spoken, not sung. A man (likely Douglas MacDonald) begins singing 'Wild Mustard River'.At 26:28 the song ends. 1948.10.00  This song appears in Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson eds. Songs of Miramichi  Brunswick Press Fredericton, N.B. pg. 306.

Another known version was collected in 1948 in Michigan from a lumberman there see here http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S165630

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