Tonalité : B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the melting
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snows of Ontario
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Where the wind'll make you shiver
It was the month of May
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up in Georgian Bay
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River
Verse 2
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Where the bears prowl and
the coyotes howl
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And you can hear the osprey scream
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Back in '99 we were cutting pine
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And sending it down the stream
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Verse 3
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Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay
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All the way from P.E.I.
Where the weather's rough
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and it makes you tough
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No man's afraid to die
Verse 4
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Sandy came a smilin',
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Thirty Thousand Islands
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Was the place to claim his glory
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Now Sandy's gone but his name lives on
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This is Sandy's story
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Verse 5
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Young Sandy Gray lives on today
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In the echoes of a mighty yell
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Listen close and you'll hear a ghost
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In this story that I tell, boys
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This story that I tell
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Verse 6
Now Sandy Gray was boss of
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the men who'd toss
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The trees onto the shore
They'd come and go till they'd
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built a floe
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100,000 logs or more
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And he'd
Verse 7
ride 'em down
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toward Severn Sound
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To cut 'em up in the mills for timber
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And the ships would haul
spring summer and fall
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Till the ice came in December
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Verse 8
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One Sabbath Day big Sandy Gray
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Came into camp with a Peavey
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on his shoulder
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With a thunder crack he dropped his axe
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And the room got a little bit colder
Verse 9
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Said, "Come on all you, we got work to do
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We gotta give 'er all we
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can give 'er
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There's a jam of logs at the little jog
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Near the mouth of
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the Musquash River"
Verse 10
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With no time to pray on the Lord's day
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They were hoping for
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God's forgiveness
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But the jam was high in a troubled sky
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And they set out about their business
Verse 11
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They poked with poles and
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ran with the rolls
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And tried to stay on their feet
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Every trick they tried, one man cried
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This logjam's got us beat!"
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Verse 12
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid
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And he let out a mighty yell
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
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Or it's breakfast in hell, boys
Interlude 1
Breakfast in hell!"
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Verse 13
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Now every one of the men
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did the work of ten
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An d Sandy scrambled up to the top
He is working like a dog
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heaving 30 foot logs
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And it looked like he'd never
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stop
Verse 14
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They struggled on, these men so strong
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Till the jam began to sway
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Then they dove for cover
to the banks of the river
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All except for Sandy Gray
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Verse 15
Now with thoughts of death
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they held their breath
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As they saw their friend go down
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They all knew in a second or two
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He'd be crushed or frozen
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or drowned
Verse 16
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They saw him fall and they heard him call
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Just once and then it was over
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Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River
Verse 17
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid
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And he let out a mighty yell
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
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Or it's breakfast in hell, boys
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Breakfast in hell!"
Interlude 2
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Verse 18
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East of Giant's Tomb there's
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plenty of room
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There's no fences and no walls
And if you listen close
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you'll hear a ghost
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Down by Sandy Gray Falls
Verse 19
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Through the tops of the trees
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you'll hear in the breeze
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The echoes of a mighty yell
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
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Or it's breakfast in hell"
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Verse 20
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And Sandy Gray lives on today
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And he let out a mighty yell
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
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Or it's breakfast in hell, boys
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Breakfast in hell!"
Outro 1
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