Isaac Pearson - Woodcutting Song
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
4th traste
E
We were broke so we
settled our tabs and families
Am
In for the winter we walked 50 miles
To the black sturgeon river logging camp
E
We sons of the forest felled
Hewed, scored, sawed and
Am
Drawed unto the ice with
Rosval and Voutinalinen
E
There was a log house on a long lake
brown with beams of oak
Am
Nestled in among the fields and
hills of granite, furns, and timber
E
The blizzards send wind in every
direction on a compass
Am
And a man collapsed in a heap
frost bitted and exhausted
E
Asked brother do you know me
I ken you will I ken you all
Am
But it is all darkness and
I am entering that long journey
E
Do you see the bright star John?
Aye John that's my home, my home, my home
Am
Now trudging past the scorched rampikes
where mighty forests stood
E
Bathed in a sea of fire William's Shanty
was a funeral pire
Am
Round Finn Lake the cedar burned
and smelled so sweet
E
We shared some spruce tea and
some rice pudding
Am
Before he bent down to adjust
my calked boots
E
In the spring we had 25 sticks
bound into 25 cribs
Am
Rafted up to the mouth of the
grand old river
E
As we approached trois roches
the pilot ordered to pull our oars
Am
But a man was thrown by the rapids
and clamped between the timber
E
This kammpa jatka was crushed and
we buried him next to the river
Am
On the raft we had 50 000 logs of oak,
birch, cedar, ash, elm, birds eye,
and curly maple
E
And as we rested in our raft a bass
jumped and made a splash
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