Lumberjack

<p>[Intro]<br/>Ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon, now there&#x27;s a town for you<br/>And you talk about rough<br/>You know a lot of places in the country claim Paul Bunyon lived there<br/>But you should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there<br/>Every one of them loggers looked like Paul Bunyon to me<br/>And I was a skinny kid about sixteen<br/>And I was scared to death when we walked into that camp<br/>None of the lumberjacks paid any attention to me at first<br/>But when my pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job<br/>A lot of &#x27;em stopped their work to see what was gonna happen<br/>That big boss walked around me looked me up and down and said<br/>Mister, I believe that boy is made out of second growth timber and I guess I was<br/>Everybody but me and pa had a big laugh over it<br/>Pa got kinda mad and the boss finally said he might start me out as a high climber<br/>I didn&#x27;t know what a high climber was, boy, I sure learned fast<br/>That steel corded rope cut my back and that axe<br/>I thought it was gonna break my arms off but I stuck with it<br/>It wasn&#x27;t long &#x27;til I learned that a man&#x27;s got to be a lot tougher than the timber he&#x27;s cuttin&#x27;<br/>Finally I could swing that crosscut saw with the best of them<br/>[Verse 1]<br/>I lived on a farm out in Iowa<br/>I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay<br/>Got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free<br/>Heard the Oregon timber calling me<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?<br/>Is it one for forward and three for back?<br/>Is it two for stop or four for go?<br/>Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don&#x27;t know<br/><br/>[Verse 2]<br/>Well, I learned this fact from a logger named Ray<br/>You don&#x27;t cut timber on a windy day<br/>Stay out of the woods when the moisture&#x27;s low<br/>Or you ain&#x27;t gonna live to collect your dough<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?<br/>Is it one for forward and three for back?<br/>Is it two for stop or four for go?<br/>Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don&#x27;t know<br/><br/>[Verse 3]<br/>Well you work in the woods from morning to night<br/>You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight<br/>On Saturday night you go to Eugene<br/>And on a Sunday morning, your pockets are clean<br/>[Chorus]<br/>Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?<br/>Is it one for forward and three for back?<br/>Is it two for stop or four for go?<br/>Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don&#x27;t know