Wilmot MacDonald - Lumberman's Alphabet 022-01



This song is sung a cappella. It was recorded at the Miramichi Folk Song Festival in 1960.

This song goes through the alphabet describing the life of lumbermen. After singing the line about giving shanty boys whiskey Wilmot says jokingly I got it here ; he joked earlier about having whiskey in his pockets. Wilmot laughs a few times while singing, like when he sings about the lice crawling over the men. At one point, he stops for a second and the audience reminds him that he left out the letter Q, at which point he sings the Q line.

This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (072-01), (073-07), (085-07), (122-05), and (124-03) where they are sung again by Wilmot MacDonald. The refrain consists partly of vocables.