John Driscoll - Song of the Larrigans



This song is sung a cappella. This song is somewhat humorous song about the leather moccasins with legs (Dibblee & Dibblee:1973) which lumbermen wore in the woods. Mainly, it recounts in some detail what life in the lumbercamps was like (it mentions nightly singing). The last words of the song, "you'll surely rue, while settling for your larrigans", are spoken, not sung.

This song is sung elsewhere in the Manny collection as (123-02).