Songtexte The Jam On Jerry's Rocks - Pete Seeger

Come, all you true-born shanty boys, wherever you may be
Come sit here on the deacon's seat, and listen unto me
'Tis of the jam on Jerry's rocks and hero you should know
The bravest of the shanty-boys, our foreman, Young Monroe

'Twas on a Sunday mornin', ere daylight did appear
Our logs were piled up mountain high, we could not keep them clear
'Till six of our brave shanty-boys, they did agree to go
And break the jam on Jerry's rocks, with foreman young Monroe

We had not picked up many a log,'till Monroe he did say
This jam will soon give way boys,I'll send you far away
I will send you off the drive,boys,for the jam it soon will go
Then he picked the key log out of the drive,and off went young Monroe

When the rest of all the shanty boys the sad news came to hear
They gatheted at the river and downward they did stare

And there they found to their surpirise and sorrow,grief and woe
All cut and mangled on the beach,lay the farm of young Monroe