Eli the Barrow Boy

"Eli the Barrow Boy" was written by Colin Meloy of American indie rock band The Decemberists, and originally released on their 2005 album Picaresque. The Longest Johns have covered it with some frequency in their livestreams, and released a video cover on YouTube on 12 April 2023.
===Factoids===
A barrow boy was a street vendor who would sell various goods out of a wheelbarrow.
A tamarack is a type of larch tree native to Canada and the northeastern United States.
Andy covered this song in the For Want of Rain project.
==Lyrics==
These lyrics are based on the version performed by the Longest Johns in their livestreams; they more or less follow the original version.
Eli the barrow boy, of the old town
Sells coal and marigolds and he cries out
All down the day
Below the tamaracks he is crying
Corn cobs and candle wax for the buying
All down the day
{Chorus}
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
But she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
And still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day
Eli the barrow boy, when they found him
Dressed all in corduroy, he had drowned in
The river down the way
They laid his body down in a churchyard
But still when the moon is out, with his pushcart
He calls down the day
{Chorus 2}
Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
But I am dead and gone and lying in a church ground
And still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day
I must push my barrow all the day
I must push my barrow all the day
==Recordings==
====YouTube Videos====
*Music video
====Gig Videos====
*Falmouth International Shanty Festival (22 Jun 2018)
*Shrewsbury Folk Festival (28 Aug 2021)
====Full Band Streams====
*TLJ Christmas Party!! (18 Dec 2019)
*(New Merch) I'm Goin' Off the Rails on a Crazy Stream (14 Oct 2020)
*All Aboard the Stream Locomotive (2 Jun 2021)
*Amazing Technicolor Stream-coat!! (7 Jul 2021)
*It's The Most Wonderful Stream of the Year (22 Dec 2021)
*Blue Stream of Death! (29 Jun 2022)
*Stream me up Scotty! (23 Aug 2022)
*Streamworks (18 Jan 2023)
*Do Androids Stream of Electric Sheep (3 Aug 2023)
*Little Stream of Horrors (25 Oct 2023)
*Big Announcement Stream (22 Nov 2023)
*It Was Christmas Stream Babe (20 Dec 2023)
====Chill Streams====
*JD & Andy Chilltime - 13/01/2020
*JD & Andy Chilltime - 27/01/2020
*Welcome to the Chilldome! Playing mostly folk music... - 20/04/2020
*More chilled than a sack of penguins with Andy & JD - 27/04/2020
====Gaming Streams====
*Adventures on the Sea of Thieves with Andy and JD (29 Aug 2018)
*Sea of Sings! Let's ride the waves like majestic manatees! - 17/07/2020
*Sea of Sings! Let's get boaty! - 20/07/2020
*4 Sloops 4 Furious - 04/09/2020
*Singing you say? On the sea you say? Sea of Sings! - 12/10/2020
*Sea of Sings! with KroTukk! SHANT! - 3/11/2020
*Let's get splashy - 18/12/2020
*Sea of Sings! Pirate malarkey afoot! - 15/01/2021
*Sea of Sings! Yarr? - 01/02/2021
*Sea of Sings - It's boat time - 22/02/2021
*Give it away, give it away, give it away now! | Sea of Sings - 15/03/2021
*Streamy time sails with friends and song! - 23/04/2021
*It's Monday, Monday, Singing and Sailing on Monday! - 26/04/2021
*Roll on up, roll on down. We all get songs in Streaming Town - 31/05/2021
*Sing what you want 'cause a streamer is free, You Are A Streamer! - 02/08/2021
*STREAM Stream stream... - 27/09/2021
*Too many gosh darned BUCKETS!!!! ... - 18/10/2021
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