Chords for Lumberjack

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