Johnny Cash - Lumberjack Lyrics

Lyrics Lumberjack - Johnny Cash




Ride this train to Roseburg, Oregon
Now, there's a town for you and you talk about rough
You know a lot of places in the country claim Paul Bunyon lived there
But you should have seen Roseburg when me and my daddy come there
Every one of them loggers looked like Paul Bunyon to me
And I was a skinny kid about sixteen
And I was scared to death when we walked into that camp
None of the lumberjacks paid any attention to me at first but
My pa told the boss that me and him wanted a job
A lot of 'em stopped their work to see what was gonna happen
That big boss walked around me looked me up and down and said
"Mister, I believe that boy is made out of second-growth timber" and I guess I was
Everybody but me and pa had a big laugh over it
Pa got kinda mad, boss finally said, "He might start me out as a high climber"
I didn't know what a high climber was, boy, I sure learned fast
That steel corded rope cut my back and that axe
I thought it was gonna break my arms off but I stuck with it
It wasn't long 'till I learned that a man's got to be a lot tougher than the timber he's cuttin'
Finally, I could swing that crosscut saw with the best of them
I lived on a farm out in Iowa
I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay
Got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free
Heard the Oregon timber callin' me
Will you tell me somethin', Mr. lumberjack
Is it one for forward and three for back
Is it two for stop or four for go?
Boy, ask a whistle punk I don't know
Well I learned this fact from a logger named Ray
You don't cut timber on a windy day
Stay out of the woods when the moisture's low
Or you ain't gonna live to collect your doe
Will you tell me somethin', Mr. lumberjack
Is it one for forward and three for back
Is it two for stop or four for go?
Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don't know
Well, you work in the woods from morning 'till night
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight
On Saturday night you go to Eugene's
And on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean
Will you tell me somethin', Mr. lumberjack
Is it one for forward and three for back
Is it two for stop or four for go?
Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don't know



Writer(s): Leon Payne


Johnny Cash - Hot Hundred- Johnny Cash
Album Hot Hundred- Johnny Cash
date of release
24-03-2014

1 I’ll Remember You
2 I Want to Go Home
3 Boy Named Sue - Live
4 Run Softy, Blue River
5 I’d Rather Die Young
6 The Wreck of Old' 97
7 I Couldn’t Keep From Crying
8 Pickin’ Time
9 Don’t Step On Mother’s Roses
10 Story of a Broken Heart
11 That’s All Over
12 Frankie’s Man, Johnny
13 It Could Be You (Instead of Him)
14 That’s Enough
15 Hey Good Lookin'
16 My Grandfather’s Clock
17 Clementine
18 Supper-Time
19 When Papa Played the Dobro
20 The Man On the Hill
21 Slow Rider
22 Shepherd of My Heart
23 Seasons of My Heart
24 Old Doc Brown
25 You Won’t Have Far to Go
26 Why Do You Punish Me (For Lovin’ You)
27 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
28 Loading Coal
29 I Will Miss You When You Go
30 Port of Lonely Hearts
31 Hank and Joe and Me
32 Going to Memphis
33 Boss Jack
34 Time Changes Everything
35 My Treasure
36 Mr. Lonesome
37 Lost on the Desert
38 In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home
39 Five Feet High and Rising
40 Transfusion Blues
41 The Rock Island Line
42 The Great Speckled Bird
43 My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
44 Just One More
45 In the Jailhouse Now
46 The Way of a Woman In Love
47 Big River
48 I Was There When It Happened
49 Guess Things Happen That Way
50 Down the Street to 301
51 Next in Line
52 Give My Love to Rose
53 Cry! Cry! Cry!
54 You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven
55 Mean Eyed Cat
56 I Love You Because
57 I Walk the Line
58 Hey Porter
59 Folsom Prison Blues
60 Home of the Blues
61 Feel Better All Over
62 Remember Me
63 The Troubadour
64 Don't Make Me Go
65 Drink To Me
66 Old Apache Squaw
67 You Remembered Me
68 I’d Just Be Fool Enough
69 Lumberjack
70 Sing It Pretty, Sue
71 Life Goes On
72 Oh, Lonesome Me




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