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Originally Posted by Jyqm
Is this strictly a poem, or is it also a song? Or has music ever been written for it? It'd make for a real nice folk/country song.
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as far as I know its only a poem. Robert W. Service has quite a lot of poems dealing with the Yukon/Gold Rush days.........
http://www.robertwservice.com/module...p?articleid=30
this is the home page with a voice clip from the old boy hisself:
Robert W. Service
another favorite is
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Another "poem" I like which is actually a song, is
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald I think Gordon Lightfoot did an awesome job with this song/poem.