Obscure? Says who?

[peter webster]

Or, ahem, if you're into social justice and the history of the
pacific north west....




At 7:50 PM -0500 3/20/02, Liland Brajant Ros' wrote:
>>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)
>>
>>
>>
>>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).
>>
>>
>>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....
>>
>>Gibbs M. Smith, Labor Martyr Joe Hill, New York, NY, 1969, pp. 24-25.
>>
>>
>>Lyrics (one stanza) as remembered by Moreau, reprinted ibid.
>>
>>
>>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."
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>You can email me at
>>manfredh at mainz.netsurf.de
>
>
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peter