{"id":7186,"date":"2009-11-01T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:31:37","slug":"frozen-logger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7186","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Logger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Frozen_Logger.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Frozen_Logger.mp3\">Frozen Logger<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nFrank Hamilton played banjo on this at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 1957. It&#8217;s a funny song written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Stevens_%28musician%29\">James Stevens<\/a>, the man who made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Bunyan\">Paul Bunyan<\/a> famous. Loggers are a tough bunch according to this song and it&#8217;s probably true given the harsh conditions they work under! Camilla and I have been traveling in the Northwest for the last two weeks and I decided to record this as a reminder of the end of a wonderful two month tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nThe Frozen Logger<br \/>\n(James Stevens)<\/p>\n<p>[G] As I sat [D7] down one [G] evening within a [D7] small [G] cafe,<br \/>\nA forty year old waitress to [C] me these words did [D7] say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see that you are a logger, and not just a common bum,<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause nobody but a logger stirs his coffee with is thumb.<\/p>\n<p>My lover was a logger, there&#8217;s none like him today;<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d pour whiskey on it he could eat a bale of hay<\/p>\n<p>He never shaved his whiskers from off of his horny hide;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d just drive them in with a hammer and bite them off inside.<\/p>\n<p>My lover came to see me upon one freezing day;<br \/>\nHe held me in his fond embrace which broke three vertebrae.<\/p>\n<p>He kissed me when we parted, so hard that he broke my jaw;<br \/>\nI could not speak to tell him he&#8217;d forgot his mackinaw.<\/p>\n<p>I saw my lover leaving, sauntering through the snow,<br \/>\nGoing gaily homeward at forty-eight below.<\/p>\n<p>The weather it tried to freeze him, it tried its level best;<br \/>\nAt a hundred degrees below zero, he buttoned up his vest.<\/p>\n<p>It froze clean through to China, it froze to the stars above;<br \/>\nAt a thousand degrees below zero, it froze my logger love.<\/p>\n<p>They tried in vain to thaw him, and would you believe me, sir<br \/>\nThey made him into axeblades, to chop the Douglas fir.<\/p>\n<p>And so I lost my lover, and to this cafe I come,<br \/>\nAnd here I wait till someone stirs his coffee with his thumb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Frozen Logger Frank Hamilton played banjo on this at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 1957. It&#8217;s a funny song written by James Stevens, the man who made Paul Bunyan famous. Loggers are a tough bunch according to this song and it&#8217;s probably true given the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frozen Logger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8737,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions\/8737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}