In the melting of Ontario Where the wind'll make you It was the of May up in Georgian Bay Near the mouth of the River
Where the prowl and the coyotes howl And you can hear the osprey in '99 we were cutting pine And it down the stream
Young Gray came to Go Home Bay All the way P.E.I. Where the rough and it makes you tough No afraid to die
Sandy came a smilin', Thousand Islands Was the place to claim his Now Sandy's but his name lives on This is story
Sandy Gray lives on today In the of a mighty yell Listen close and hear a ghost In this that I tell, boys This story that I
Now Gray was boss of the men who'd toss The onto the shore They'd and go till they'd built a floe 100,000 logs or
And he'd 'em down toward Severn Sound To cut 'em up in the mills for And the ships would spring summer and fall Till the ice came in
One Sabbath Day big Sandy Came into camp with a on his shoulder With a crack he dropped his axe And the room got a bit colder
Said, "Come on all you, we got to do We gotta give 'er all we can 'er a jam of logs at the little jog Near the mouth of the River"
no time to pray on the Lord's day They were hoping for God's But the jam was high in a sky And they set out their business
They poked with and ran with the rolls And tried to stay on their Every trick they tried, one man This got us beat!"
But Sandy Gray was not And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's breakfast in hell, in hell!"
Now every one of the men did the of ten And scrambled up to the top He is working a dog heaving 30 foot logs And it looked he'd never stop
struggled on, these men so strong Till the jam to sway Then they dove for cover to the of the river All except for Sandy
Now thoughts of death they held their breath As saw their friend go down all knew in a second or two He'd be crushed or frozen or
They saw him fall and heard him call once and then it was over Young Sandy Gray his life that day Near the mouth of the River
But Sandy was not afraid And he let out a mighty "I'll be damned, break this jam Or breakfast in hell, boys in hell!"
East of Tomb there's plenty of room no fences and no walls And if you listen close hear a ghost Down by Sandy Gray
Through the tops of the trees you'll hear in the The echoes of a mighty "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's in hell"
And Gray lives on today And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's in hell, boys in hell!"