Singing the Praises of Lumber-camp Food

Here I am making fun of our Maine traditions..." -- Ed

from the History of Bean-hole Beans
http://www.umaine.edu/folklife/bhbhistory.htm

....Songs were made about lumber-camp food. Larry Gorman, a Prince Edward Islander who came to Maine to work in the woods and later lived in Brewer, Maine. He made up songs about many things, including the lumber-woods work. One song, “The Good Old State of Maine” has two stanzas about lumber camp food:

"Now for the grub, I'll give it a rub, and that it does deserve,
The cooks become so lazy they'll allow the men to starve;
For it's bread and beans, then beans and bread, then bread and beans again,
Of grub we would sometimes have a change in that good old State of Maine
Our meat and fish is poorly cooked, the bread is sour and old;
The beans are dry and musty and doughnuts are hard and old;
To undertake to chew one, that would give your jaws a pain,
for they're not the kind we used to find in that good old State of Maine."