The song is about the sailors who used a donkey engine to load and unload logs on a ship. A donkey engine is a single-cylinder steam engine. The song was usually sung while loading the ships in Quebec and Miramichi . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey
The song is about the sailors who used a donkey engine to load and unload logs on a ship. A donkey engine is a single-cylinder steam engine. The song was usually sung while loading the ships in Quebec and Miramichi . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey