Alumbering we go lyrics

Artist  : Unknown 
Song : Alumbering we go
 
A-Lumbering We Go
Come all ye sons of freedom throughout old
Michigan,
Come all ye gallant lumbermen, come list to a
shantyman.
From the banks of the Muskegon where the rapid
waters flow
We'll range the wildwoods o'er while a-lumbering
we go.
The music of our burnished axe shall make the
woods resound,
And many a lofty ancient pine shall tumble to the
ground.
At night around our shanty fire we'll sing while
rude winds blow
We'll range the wildwoods o'er while a-lumbering
we go.
I am a jolly shantyboy as you shall soon
discover,
To all the dodges I am fly, a hustling pinewoods
rover.
A peavey hook it is my pride, an axe I well can
handle,
To fell a tree or punch a bull get rattling
Johnny Randle.
I met a girl in Saginaw and she lives with her
mother
And I defy all Michigan to find such another;
She's tall and slim, her hair is red, her face is
plump and pretty,
She's my daisy Sunday-best-day girl, and her
front name stands for
     Kitty.
I took her to a dance one night. A mossback gave
the bidding
Silver Jack he bossed the shebang, and big Dan
played the fiddle.
We danced and drank the livelong night with
fights between the dancing
Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch and set
the mossbacks prancing.
From Fowke, Lumbering Songs of the Northern
Woods.
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