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Bill Smith
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Yankee John Galusha
Sheet Music (pdf)
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(Grace Brown and Chester Gillette)
Lawrence \"Larry\" Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Yankee John Galusha
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lee Knight
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Theodore Ashlaw
FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 127-131, 138
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Milt Okun
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lena Bourne Fish
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Steve Wadsworth
Sheet Music (pdf
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Lawrence Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Steve Wadsworth
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Fragment: Gilderoy - Lily Delorme
Lena Bourne Fish
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Bill Smith
Sheet Music (pdf)
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aka Bush LaPorte
Edward Ashlaw
FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 91-96, 98
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Sara, Jim and Colleen Cleveland
Sheet Music (pdf)
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John Galusha
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Pete Seeger
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Theodore Ashlaw
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lee Knight
Sheet Music (pdf)
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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.
Theodore Ashlaw
FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 125-127, 138
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lawrence Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Clarence Richards
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Steve & Phil Hurley
Lawrence Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lawrence Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Judge Learned Hand
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Sara Cleveland
Bill Smith
Sheet Music (pdf)
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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.
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Sara, Jim and Colleen Cleveland
John Galusha
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Clarence Richards
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Frank Warner
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Bill Smith
Theodore Ashlaw
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Sara Cleveland
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Pete Seeger
Sheet Music (pdf)
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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.
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Jeff Davis Version
Lily Delorme
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Milt Okun
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Milt Okun
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Judge Learned Hand
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Frank Warner
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Ermina Pincombe
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Ermina Pincombe
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Edward Ashlaw
FOR COMMENTARY ON THIS SONG, SEE BETHKE, Adirondack Voices, pages 96-98, 134
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Edward Ashlaw
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Pete Seeger
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Ermina Pincombe
Sheet Music (pdf)
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aka Johnny Stiles
Edward Ashlaw
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lawrence \"Larry\" Older
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Clarence Richards
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Theodore Ashlaw
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Colleen and James Cleveland
Sheet Music (pdf)
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Lee Knight
Sheet Music (pdf)
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