Shanty Man's Life
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 2020-11-18

Day 245 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

Sandburg writes: "Franz Rickaby heard from an old shanty-boy, A. C. Hannah at Bimidji, Minnesota, the same tune that John Lomax met in Texas. The cowpuncher of the southwestern plains and the lumber-jack of the north woods strung on the same old Irish melody verses telling of similar troubles and like gaiety. Though they have "a wearisome life" it is "void of all slavish fear"."