Obscure? Says who?

[Liland Brajant Ros']

>From: Dave Robertson <tuktiwawa at NETSCAPE.NET>
>Reply-To: tuktiwawa at NETSCAPE.NET
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: "Skookum Ryan the Walking Boss" by Joe Hill?
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:35:47 -0500
>
>>From an obscure website about the folk music of anarchist labor unionists
>in the USA, circa 1900...this song is attributed tentatively to Joe Hill.
>--  Dave

For some folks this may be an obscure topic, but if you're into Wobbly songs
and related genres, there's nothing at all obscure about the site in
question.

lilEnd
Wobbly Song Fan

>SKOOKUM RYAN THE WALKING BOSS (FRAGMENT) (JOE HILL) (c. 1912)
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>Any copyrighted material on these pages is used in "fair use", for the
>purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at
>the request of copyright owner(s).
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>Louis Moreau, a Wobbly "camp delegate" who helped organize the construction
>workers [of the Canadian Northern Railroad Company in British Columbia,
>1912]... remembers that Joe Hill... appeared in the strikers' camp in Yale,
>British Columbia.... Moreau remembers seeing Joe Hill often in the office
>of the Yale strike secretary writing songs. "Where The River Fraser Flows"
>was written during the first few days Hill was in the camp....
>Another song, "Skookum Ryan, the Walking Boss," was very popular and
>consisted of five or six stanzas of which Moreau remembers one....
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>Gibbs M. Smith, Labor Martyr Joe Hill, New York, NY, 1969, pp. 24-25.
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>Lyrics (one stanza) as remembered by Moreau, reprinted ibid.
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>Skookum Ryan the Walking Boss
>Came tearing down the line,
>Says he, "You dirty loafers take your coats off
>Or go and get your time."
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>TO TOP OF PAGE
>TO JOE HILL PAGE
>TO I. W. W. PAGE
>TO LABOR MOVEMENT PAGE
>TO HISTORY IN SONG PAGE
>TO STARTING PAGE
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>You can email me at
>manfredh at mainz.netsurf.de


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