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