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From the singing of LaRena Clark, published in Edith Fowke, A Family Heritage, p 234.

There are many songs about life in logging camps, including tragic tales of accidental deaths (e.g., “Peter Emberley”) but few of these songs have choruses. This song illustrates just how important it was, after a day of hard work, to eat a good dinner, especially the dessert.

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Hurry Up, Harry

Come all you true born shantyboys and listen unto me
And whene’er a woodsman that you should chance to see
We are a merry set of boys, so handsome, young and fine
And spend a jolly winter a-cutting down the pine.

So it’s hurry up, Harry, and Tom or Dick or Joe
And you may take the pail, boys, and for the water go
In the middle of the splashing, the cook will “Dinner!” cry
And you’d ought to see them hurry up for fear they’d lose their pie.

There’s blackstrap molasses, buns as hard as rock
Tea that’s boiled in an old tin pail and smells just like your sock
The beans they are sour, the porridge thick as dough
And when we’ve have stashed this in our craw, it’s to the woods we’ll go
So it’s hurry up, Harry, …

A-hitching up our braces, a-binding up our feet
A-grinding up our axes, for our kind is hard to beat!
A-shouldering up our crosscuts and through the woods we go
We are a jolly set of boys a-trudging through the snow.
So it’s hurry up, Harry, …

So deeply in that tree of pine we notch to guide its fall
And not a man among us but will hear the timber call
And when it crashes to the ground, we fall to with a will
A-trimmin’ up the branches and a-swearin’ fit to kill.
So it’s hurry up, Harry, …

Arriving at the shanty, wet, tired and with wet feet
We all take off our socks and boots, our supper for to eat
At nine o’clock or thereabouts into our bunks we’ll crawl
To sleep away the few short hours until the morning call
So it’s hurry up, Harry, …

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from Safe & Sound: Traditional Canadian Folk Songs, released April 1, 2022
Maura Volante, vocals
Ernie Fraser, guitar
James Stephens, fiddle
Ann Downey, vocals
Fern Vale, vocals
James Stephens, vocals

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Maura Volante Ottawa, Ontario

Maura Volante is a singer of traditional folk songs, with a focus on those collected in Canada. She discovered folk music in the 1960s and has deepened her understanding over the decades. Maura has performed at festivals, coffee houses, concerts and living rooms all over Canada (and worldwide on Zoom), as well as passing on her knowledge and enthusiasm through workshops, courses and lessons. ... more

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