In the melting of Ontario Where the wind'll make you It was the month of May up in Bay the mouth of the Musquash River
Where the bears prowl and the coyotes And you can hear the osprey Back in '99 we were pine And it down the stream
Young Gray came to Go Home Bay All the way P.E.I. Where the weather's rough and it makes you No afraid to die
Sandy came a smilin', Thirty Islands Was the place to claim his Now Sandy's gone but his name on This is story
Sandy Gray lives on today In the echoes of a mighty close and you'll hear a ghost In this story I tell, boys This story that I
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 would haul spring summer and fall Till the ice came in
One Sabbath Day big Sandy Came camp with a Peavey on his shoulder With a crack he dropped his axe And the room got a little bit
Said, "Come on all you, we got to do We give '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 God's But the jam was in a troubled sky And they set out about their
poked with poles and ran with the rolls And tried to stay on their trick they tried, one man cried This got us beat!"
But Sandy was not afraid And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's in hell, boys in hell!"
Now every one of the men did the of ten And Sandy up to the top He is like a dog heaving 30 foot logs And it looked like never stop
They struggled on, these men so Till the jam to sway Then they dove for cover to the of the river All for Sandy Gray
Now thoughts of death they held their breath As they saw friend go down all knew in a second or two He'd be or frozen or drowned
They saw him fall and they heard him Just once and it was over Young Sandy gave his life that day the mouth of the Musquash River
But Gray was not afraid And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's breakfast in hell, in hell!"
East of Giant's Tomb plenty of room no fences and no walls And if you listen close hear a ghost Down by Sandy Falls
Through the tops of the trees you'll in the breeze The of a mighty yell "I'll be damned, break 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 it's breakfast in hell, in hell!"