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\'Listen\' Adirondack Memories (4:31) Listen | Download
Bill Smith

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\'Listen\' Aviators Hymn (1:20) Listen | Download
Yankee John Galusha

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\'Listen\' Ballad of Big Moose Lake (1:55) Listen | Download
(Grace Brown and Chester Gillette)
Lawrence \"Larry\" Older

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\'Listen\' Ballad of Blue Mountain Lake (3:15) Listen | Download
Yankee John Galusha

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\'Listen\' Banks of Champlain (4:00) Listen | Download
Lee Knight

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\'Listen\' Beaver River (3:08) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 127-131, 138

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\'Listen\' Bert LeFountain\'s Packard (1:28) Listen | Download
Milt Okun

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\'Listen\' Castle by the Sea (0:40) Listen | Download
Lena Bourne Fish

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\'Listen\' Curly Head of Hair (1:24) Listen | Download
Steve Wadsworth

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\'Listen\' Elder Bordee (3:55) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Farmer’s Boy (4:10) Listen | Download
Steve Wadsworth

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\'Listen\' Gilderoy (0:57) Listen | Download
Fragment: Gilderoy - Lily Delorme

\'Listen\' Gilgarrah Mountain (0:54) Listen | Download
Lena Bourne Fish

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\'Listen\' Go Tell Aunt Nabby (2:14) Listen | Download
Bill Smith

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\'Listen\' I\'m Just A Common Lumberhick (0:45) Listen | Download
aka Bush LaPorte
Edward Ashlaw

FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 91-96, 98

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\'Listen\' In Bonny Scotland (6:41) Listen | Download
Sara, Jim and Colleen Cleveland

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\'Listen\' Irish 69th (0:53) Listen | Download
John Galusha

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\'Listen\' Isabeau S‘y Promeneau (1:49) Listen | Download
Pete Seeger

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\'Listen\' Jam on Gerry’s Rock (4:26) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

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\'Listen\' Lily of the Lake (2:54) Listen | Download
Lee Knight

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\'Listen\' Loon Lake (0:52) Listen | Download
Fragment: Loon Lake - Lily Delorme

Note: Mrs. Delorme’s “Loon Lake” is a regional variant of \"The Ballad of Blue Mountain Lake\" and an excellent example of the “localization” that this song (and many others) went through as they were taken from town to town.

\'Listen\' Miner Hill (4:05) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 125-127, 138

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\'Listen\' Not Far From Ballston (1:44) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Old Maid and the Burglar (1:43) Listen | Download
Clarence Richards

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\'Listen\' On The Hoko Moko Isle (2:42) Listen | Download
Steve & Phil Hurley

\'Listen\' Once More A-Lumbering Go (3:55) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Pat Malone (3:55) Listen | Download
Lawrence Older

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\'Listen\' Phil Sheridan (1:38) Listen | Download
Judge Learned Hand

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\'Listen\' Queen Jane (7:04) Listen | Download
Sara Cleveland

\'Listen\' Rosewood Casket (2:48) Listen | Download
Bill Smith

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\'Listen\' Roving Cunningham (1:46) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 134-135, 138

We have the text for another version of this same song from a singer named Albert LaBrake, who was superintendent of Fish Rock Camp on Upper Saranac Lake when he sang his version.
(date unknown, prior to 1977)

LaBrake’s version is essentially the same except for some interesting changes in locale: Cunningham goes “down the Ausable (River)” rather than “back to Saranac” in the first verse, comes to Lake Placid rather than Tupper Lake in the second verse, and charms Jim Hennesee’s daughter instead of Tobin’s in the third. Interestingly, he goes “back to Saranac” in the last verse, just as does Ted Ashlaw’s Cunningham.

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\'Listen\' Sprig of Thyme (5:05) Listen | Download
Sara, Jim and Colleen Cleveland

\'Listen\' Springfield Mountain (1:49) Listen | Download
John Galusha

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\'Listen\' Streets of Laredo (3:03) Listen | Download
Clarence Richards

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\'Listen\' The Ballad of Montcalm and Wolfe (3:02) Listen | Download
Frank Warner

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\'Listen\' The Barefoot Boy With Shoes On (2:06) Listen | Download
Bill Smith

\'Listen\' The Blind Child (2:39) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

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\'Listen\' The Boy Who Lived Here (4:00) Listen | Download
Sara Cleveland

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\'Listen\' The Canadian Errant (1:44) Listen | Download
Pete Seeger

\'Listen\' The Cold River Line (4:18) Listen | Download
Lee Knight
Lee Knight
See \"Adirondacks Had Its Own Folk Songs; \'Cold River Line\' Recalls Loggers Who Kept Timber Moving a Half-Century Ago,\" from the Tupper Lake Free Press & Herald, Thursday, December 30, 1965 edition.

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\'Listen\' The Cumberland and the Merrimac (1:03) Listen | Download
John Galusha

For comparison, listen to modern-day singer Jeff Davis perform his version of the same song, learned from Galusha’s singing and augmented with mandocello and fiddle accompaniment.

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\'Listen\' The Cumberland and the Merrimac (5:12) Listen | Download
Jeff Davis Version

\'Listen\' The Farmer and the Shanty Boy (3:21) Listen | Download
Lily Delorme

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\'Listen\' The Flying Cloud (7:58) Listen | Download
George Ward

George Ward sang a version of Yankee John\'s \"The Flying Cloud\" for TAUNY\'s \"Songs to Keep\" project.

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\'Listen\' The Good Old Days (1:30) Listen | Download
Milt Okun

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\'Listen\' The Gypsy Davey (2:00) Listen | Download
Milt Okun

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\'Listen\' The Iron Merrimac (1:48) Listen | Download
Judge Learned Hand

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\'Listen\' The Jolly Roving Tar (1:44) Listen | Download
Frank Warner

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\'Listen\' The Lumberjack’s Alphabet (2:10) Listen | Download
Ermina Pincombe

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\'Listen\' The Old Wooden Rocker (2:04) Listen | Download
Ermina Pincombe

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\'Listen\' The Roving Ashlaw Man (0:43) Listen | Download
Edward Ashlaw

FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 96-98, 134

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\'Listen\' The Tenderfoot (3:13) Listen | Download
Edward Ashlaw

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\'Listen\' The Valiant Soldier (2:00) Listen | Download
Pete Seeger

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\'Listen\' The West River Guide (4:00) Listen | Download
Ermina Pincombe

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\'Listen\' The Wild Mustard River (3:52) Listen | Download
aka Johnny Stiles
Edward Ashlaw

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\'Listen\' Them Mulleyville Boys (0:31) Listen | Download
Lawrence \"Larry\" Older

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\'Listen\' Waltz Promenade (3:17) Listen | Download
Clarence Richards

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\'Listen\' Willie Was As Fine A Sailor (4:30) Listen | Download
Theodore Ashlaw

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\'Listen\' Woodsman’s Alphabet (3:04) Listen | Download
Colleen and James Cleveland

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\'Listen\' Young Brennan (3:05) Listen | Download
Lee Knight

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