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Ballads of a Cheechako

by Robert W. Service from 1909

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Service's second Yukon collection continues the adventure ballads of his debut, with more stories of prospectors, gamblers, and hard men in the far north. 'Ballad of the Black Fox Skin' and other poems match the narrative drive of his first book. Service was the most widely read poet in North America in the 1910s, and his popularity has never entirely faded — the narrative energy of these poems makes them ideal for performance.

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Ballads of a Cheechako

Words
18.5k
Duration
~2 hr 19 min

31 sections

18.5k words
#TitleWords
1
Men of the High North
100:05
2
The Ballad of the Northern Lights
130:06
3
The Ballad of Pious Pete
130:06
4
The Ballad of the Brand
150:07
5
My Friends
120:05
6
The Telegraph Operator
60:03
7
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
90:04
8
The Trail of Ninety-Eight
120:05
9
The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
110:05
10
Lost
90:04
11
My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming
1611:12
12
Men of the High North
3852:53
13
The Ballad of the Northern Lights
2.4k18:09
14
There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame,
1.4k10:20
15
The Ballad of Pious Pete
1.1k8:35
16
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie,
9967:28
17
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
7525:38
18
The Ballad of the Brand
1.4k10:29
19
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank
6665:00
20
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town,
1.2k8:42
21
My Friends
5003:45
22
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight,
8426:19
23
The Black Sheep
5924:26
24
The Telegraph Operator
3792:51
25
The Wood-Cutter
5283:58
26
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
6064:33
27
The Trail of Ninety-Eight
1.2k9:09
28
The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
6124:35
29
In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear
1.4k10:20
30
Lost
9987:29
31
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure,
2752:04

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