In the snows of Ontario Where the make you shiver It was the month of May up in Bay the mouth of the Musquash River
Where the bears and the coyotes howl And you can hear the scream in '99 we were cutting pine And sending it the stream
Young Sandy Gray came to Go Bay All the way P.E.I. Where the weather's and it makes you tough No man's to die
came a smilin', Thirty Thousand Islands Was the place to his glory Now gone but his name lives on is Sandy's story
Young Sandy lives on today In the echoes of a yell Listen close and you'll hear a In story that I tell, boys This story I tell
Now Gray was boss of the men who'd toss The trees the shore They'd come and go till they'd a floe 100,000 or more
And he'd ride 'em down toward Severn To cut 'em up in the mills for And the ships would haul summer and fall the ice came in December
One Sabbath Day big Gray Came into camp a Peavey on his shoulder a thunder 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 There's a jam of at the little jog Near the of the Musquash River"
no time to pray on the Lord's day They were for God's forgiveness But the jam was high in a sky And they set out about business
They poked with poles and ran with the And to stay on their feet Every trick tried, one man cried This got us beat!"
But Sandy Gray was not And he let out a mighty "I'll be damned, we'll this jam Or it's breakfast in hell, in hell!"
Now one of the men did the work of ten And Sandy up to the top He is working like a dog heaving 30 foot And it looked like he'd never
They struggled on, men so strong Till the jam to sway Then they dove for to the banks of the river All except for Sandy
Now with thoughts of death they their breath As they saw friend go down all knew in a second or two He'd be crushed or or drowned
They saw him and they heard him call Just once and it was over Young Sandy Gray his life that day Near the mouth of the River
But Gray 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 Giant's Tomb 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 hear in the breeze The echoes of a mighty "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or breakfast in hell"
And Gray lives on today And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll this jam Or it's breakfast in hell, in hell!"