Lumberjack (Live at The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 1970)

(And let's ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon

Now there is a town for you Roseburg, Oregon

I was a skinny kid, I just wanna hurt somebody seeing

So, that was a skinny kid about 16 when me and pa come to Roseburg

Said I wanted to get me a job working in a Big Tree isn't that balsy

He looked me up and down and he told me told me and pa he said

"Mr. I believe that boy of yours is made out of second growth timbre"

I guess I was

He said, he said, " Let's start him up as a hack climber breaking man easy"

Breaking man easy, yeah

That steel corded rope cut the back of that axe was gonna break my arms off but I stepped with it

One long till I learnt that the man has got be a whole lot tougher than the timber he's cutting

Pretty soon as swinging that cross cut with the bastion)

I lived on a farm out in Iowa

I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay

I got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free

I heard the Oregon timber callin' me

Won't you tell me somethin' Mr. Lumberjack?

Is it one for forward and three for back?

Is it two for stop and four for go?

He said, "Boy ask a whistle punk I don't know"

Well I learned this fact from a logger named Ray

That you don't cut timber on a windy day

And stay out of the woods when the moisture's low

Or you ain't gonna live to collect your doe

Won't you tell me somethin' Mr. Lumberjack?

Is it one for forward and three for back?

Is it two for stop and four for go?

He said, "Boy ask a whistle punk I don't know"

Well you work in the woods from morning till night

You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight

On Saturday night you go to Eugene's

And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean

Won't you tell me somethin' Mr. Lumberjack?

Is it one for forward and three for back?

Is it two for stop and four for go?

He said, "Boy ask a whistle punk I don't know"