“Bunkhouse Ballad”
Description
Parody of "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest": "Sixteen men in a pine-slab bunk/Waken with grunt and growl...Coffee and flapjacks, pork and beans/Are waitin' to fill your snoots". In other words, yet another account of life in a lumber camp.
Notes
Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest" was included in Robert Louis Stevenson's _Treasure Island_. In 1891 Young E. Allison, of Louisville, KY, published a long and bloody version. Beck speculates that the composer of this parody may have seen Allison's, but without that text, it's impossible to tell. - PJS
Cross references
- cf. "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest"
- cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
References
- Beck 18, "Bunkhouse Ballad" (1 text)
- Roud #8863
- BI, Be018