Wilmot MacDonald - Winter of '73

 This song is sung a cappella. The tune of this song was evidently quite popular as it was used in several other songs including Wayerton Driver  which appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (059-02). The volume of this recording is quite low. This recorded version of the song is not nearly as long as the published versions (Wilmot has omitted a number of stanzas). After he has finished singing Wilmot says "there". The song is about lumbering in the winter of 1873 on the Miramichi. 1963  This song appears in Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson eds. Songs of Miramichi  Brunswick Press Fredericton, N.B. pg. 191 and also in Edward Ives ed. Folksongs of New Brunswick Goose Lane Editions Ltd., Fredericton pg. 37. 059-03

Here are references to a few other versions from the earlier parts of the 20th century in New Brunswick and Maine [[Category:M]]