Wilmot MacDonald - Peter Emberley



Recorded for the Lord Beaverbrook Collection of New Brunswick Folksongs (recorded at the Legion Hall Newcastle, N.B. Nov.20th, and 25th 1947)  This song is sung a cappella. This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (21-01), (029-01), (033-01), (48-03), (073-01), (077-10), (087-10), (119-01), and (124-08). This most famous of Miramichi woods ballads tells of a young PEI man who is killed while working in the Miramichi lumberwoods. 1947