"The Jam on Jerry's Rocks", also known as "The Death of Young Monroe", "Garbey's Rock" or "Foreman Young Monroe" is a ballad from some logging area, usually claimed to be either Maine, Michigan or possibly Canada. Although this is probably the best-known of all lumbering ballads, its origins have never been traced.
It has been printed in more than 50 publications including Doerflinger's Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman (1972), Helen Creighton and Doreen H. Senior's Traditional Songs of Nova Scotia (1960), John A. and Alan Lomax's Folk Song U.S.A. (1947), John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934), B. A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folklore (1944).
It is #256 in the Roud Index and appears twice in the Digital Tradition website.
It was recorded by Pete Seeger on Darling Corey and The Bells of Rhymney and by several others.