Lumberjack Chords by Johnny Cash
Tempo:
84.75 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
Eb
B
D
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon.
[B] There's a town for you, [D] and you talk about the rust.
You know, a [B] lot of places in the country claim [Ab] Paul Bunyan lived there, but you [Gm] should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there.
[Dm] Every one of them loggers looked like [G] Paul Bunyan to me, because I was a skinny kid about sixteen, and I [F] was scared to death when we walked into that camp.
[Bb] None of the lumberjacks paid [B] any attention to me at first, but my pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job.
A lot of them stopped their work just to see what was going to happen.
That big boss walked around me, looked me up and down, and said,
[G] Mr.,
I believe that boy has made out a second-growth [Bb] timber.
And I guess I was.
Everybody but me and Paul had a big laugh over it.
Paul got kind of mad.
The [D] boss finally said he might start me out as a high climber.
I didn't [Ab] know what a high climber [N] was.
Boy, I sure learned fast.
[G] That steel-corded rope cut my back, and [Eb] that axe I thought was [D] going to break my arms off.
But I stuck with it.
It wasn't long until I learned [Bb] that a man's got to be a lot tougher than the timber he's cutting.
[E] Finally, I could [Bb] swing that crosscut saw with the best of me.
I lived on a farm out in Iowa.
I pulled the corn and I [F] worked in the hay.
[Bb] Got trapped by a girl, but I wiggle [Eb] free.
[Bb] Heard the Oregon timber calling me.
Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
Well, I learned this fact [Eb] from a logger named Ray.
You don't cut timber on a [F] windy day.
[Bb] Stay out of the woods when the [Eb] moisture's low.
Or you ain't gonna live with the lecture [Bb] dough.
Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
Well, you work in the woods from [Eb] morning to night.
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight.
On Saturday night you go to [Eb] Eugene.
[Bb] And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean.
Will you tell me [Eb] something, Mr.
[Bb] Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or four [Eb] for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, [Eb] I [Bb] don't know.
[N]
[B] There's a town for you, [D] and you talk about the rust.
You know, a [B] lot of places in the country claim [Ab] Paul Bunyan lived there, but you [Gm] should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there.
[Dm] Every one of them loggers looked like [G] Paul Bunyan to me, because I was a skinny kid about sixteen, and I [F] was scared to death when we walked into that camp.
[Bb] None of the lumberjacks paid [B] any attention to me at first, but my pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job.
A lot of them stopped their work just to see what was going to happen.
That big boss walked around me, looked me up and down, and said,
[G] Mr.,
I believe that boy has made out a second-growth [Bb] timber.
And I guess I was.
Everybody but me and Paul had a big laugh over it.
Paul got kind of mad.
The [D] boss finally said he might start me out as a high climber.
I didn't [Ab] know what a high climber [N] was.
Boy, I sure learned fast.
[G] That steel-corded rope cut my back, and [Eb] that axe I thought was [D] going to break my arms off.
But I stuck with it.
It wasn't long until I learned [Bb] that a man's got to be a lot tougher than the timber he's cutting.
[E] Finally, I could [Bb] swing that crosscut saw with the best of me.
I lived on a farm out in Iowa.
I pulled the corn and I [F] worked in the hay.
[Bb] Got trapped by a girl, but I wiggle [Eb] free.
[Bb] Heard the Oregon timber calling me.
Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
Well, I learned this fact [Eb] from a logger named Ray.
You don't cut timber on a [F] windy day.
[Bb] Stay out of the woods when the [Eb] moisture's low.
Or you ain't gonna live with the lecture [Bb] dough.
Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
Well, you work in the woods from [Eb] morning to night.
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight.
On Saturday night you go to [Eb] Eugene.
[Bb] And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean.
Will you tell me [Eb] something, Mr.
[Bb] Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or four [Eb] for go?
[Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, [Eb] I [Bb] don't know.
[N]
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_ _ _ _ Ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon.
[B] There's a town for you, [D] and you talk about the rust.
You know, a [B] lot of places in the country claim [Ab] Paul Bunyan lived there, but you [Gm] should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there.
[Dm] Every one of them loggers looked like [G] Paul Bunyan to me, because I was a skinny kid about sixteen, and I [F] was scared to death when we walked into that camp.
[Bb] None of the lumberjacks paid [B] any attention to me at first, but my pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job.
A lot of them stopped their work just to see what was going to happen.
That big boss walked around me, looked me up and down, and said,
[G] Mr.,
I believe that boy has made out a second-growth [Bb] timber.
And I guess I was.
Everybody but me and Paul had a big laugh over it.
Paul got kind of mad.
The [D] boss finally said he might start me out as a high climber.
I didn't [Ab] know what a high climber [N] was.
Boy, I sure learned fast.
[G] That steel-corded rope cut my back, and [Eb] that axe I thought was [D] going to break my arms off.
But I stuck with it.
It wasn't long until I learned [Bb] that a man's got to be a lot tougher than the timber he's cutting.
[E] Finally, I could [Bb] swing that crosscut saw with the best of me.
I lived on a farm out in Iowa. _
I pulled the corn and I [F] worked in the hay.
[Bb] Got trapped by a girl, but I wiggle [Eb] free.
_ [Bb] Heard the Oregon timber calling me.
_ _ Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
_ _ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
_ _ Well, I learned this fact [Eb] from a logger named Ray.
You don't cut timber on a [F] windy day.
[Bb] Stay out of the woods when the [Eb] moisture's low.
Or you ain't gonna live with the lecture [Bb] dough.
_ _ Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
_ _ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
_ _ Well, you work in the woods from [Eb] morning to night.
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight.
On Saturday night you go to [Eb] Eugene.
_ _ [Bb] And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean.
_ Will you tell me [Eb] something, Mr.
[Bb] Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or four [Eb] for go?
_ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, [Eb] I [Bb] don't know. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
[B] There's a town for you, [D] and you talk about the rust.
You know, a [B] lot of places in the country claim [Ab] Paul Bunyan lived there, but you [Gm] should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there.
[Dm] Every one of them loggers looked like [G] Paul Bunyan to me, because I was a skinny kid about sixteen, and I [F] was scared to death when we walked into that camp.
[Bb] None of the lumberjacks paid [B] any attention to me at first, but my pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job.
A lot of them stopped their work just to see what was going to happen.
That big boss walked around me, looked me up and down, and said,
[G] Mr.,
I believe that boy has made out a second-growth [Bb] timber.
And I guess I was.
Everybody but me and Paul had a big laugh over it.
Paul got kind of mad.
The [D] boss finally said he might start me out as a high climber.
I didn't [Ab] know what a high climber [N] was.
Boy, I sure learned fast.
[G] That steel-corded rope cut my back, and [Eb] that axe I thought was [D] going to break my arms off.
But I stuck with it.
It wasn't long until I learned [Bb] that a man's got to be a lot tougher than the timber he's cutting.
[E] Finally, I could [Bb] swing that crosscut saw with the best of me.
I lived on a farm out in Iowa. _
I pulled the corn and I [F] worked in the hay.
[Bb] Got trapped by a girl, but I wiggle [Eb] free.
_ [Bb] Heard the Oregon timber calling me.
_ _ Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
_ _ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
_ _ Well, I learned this fact [Eb] from a logger named Ray.
You don't cut timber on a [F] windy day.
[Bb] Stay out of the woods when the [Eb] moisture's low.
Or you ain't gonna live with the lecture [Bb] dough.
_ _ Will you tell me something, Mr.
Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or [Eb] four for go?
_ _ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, I don't know.
_ _ Well, you work in the woods from [Eb] morning to night.
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight.
On Saturday night you go to [Eb] Eugene.
_ _ [Bb] And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean.
_ Will you tell me [Eb] something, Mr.
[Bb] Lumberjack?
Is it one for forward and three for back?
Is it two for stop or four [Eb] for go?
_ [Bb] Boy, ask a whistlepunk, [Eb] I [Bb] don't know. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
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