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The Log Driver's Waltz
(Wade Hemsworth)
If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes,
She'll say - I'm not sure that it's business of yours,
But I do like to waltz with a log driver.

Cho: For he goes birling down a-down the white water;
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly.
It's birling down, a-down white water;
A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely.

When the drive's nearly over, I like to go down
And watch all the lads while they work on the river.
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all like to waltz with a log driver.

To please both my parents I've had to give way
And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers.
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
For there's none with the style of my log driver.

I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river.
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again,
I think I will marry my log driver.

Copyright Wade Hemsworth
Recorded by Kate and Anna McGarrigle for animated
cartoon "Log Driver's Waltz" by Canada's National
Film Board.

I totally remember that one. Used to play all the time. Is it any wonder that Americans got the impression we were all lumberjacks though? This thing playing so often on the CBC certainly contributed to it...

Wow that one brought back some memories.. thanks for sharing!

Its been so long ago that i forgot about the beginning, then the cartoo part started and then its like i know this one :D

Quite a goldmine of memorable stuff.

And for the record, doing the "Log Drivers Waltz" is hard as heck.

Thanks for bringing up painfull memories.

AAWWWWW, C'mon, WereChild!

Sing it with me!

For he goes birling down a-down the white water

...
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly.

Its not the song thats painfull.. Its the memories of falling on my arse on those logs that are

You drove logs? COOL!

More riding than driving to be honest.
But by the end of the summer i was able to stand on and go from one to the other without falling (too often).

Ah, the things you agree to do as summer jobs under the teenage illusion of invincibility/immortality

SO do the ladies like to waltz with a log "Rider"?

Hmm, tough one..

Cant really say that after falling on logs and into "frisky" water for up to 12hours a day, i felt much like going out dancing. But when we did go out, my fellow workers and i, we always had plenty of funny "tall tales" to tell to break the ice with the ladies.

That beeing said, when they finaly stopped laughing at us/with us, it was quite easy to get a "pity" dance or three in exchange for that little bit of public humiliation.