In the snows of Ontario Where the wind'll you shiver It was the of May up in Georgian Bay Near the mouth of the River
Where the bears and the coyotes howl And you can the osprey scream Back in '99 we were cutting 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 afraid to die
Sandy came a smilin', Thousand Islands Was the to claim his glory Now Sandy's gone but his name on This is story
Young Sandy lives on today In the echoes of a yell Listen close and hear a ghost In this story that I tell, story that I tell
Now Sandy Gray was of the men who'd toss The trees the shore They'd come and go till built a floe 100,000 logs or
And he'd 'em down toward Severn Sound To cut 'em up in the for timber And the ships would haul spring and fall Till the ice came in
One Sabbath Day big Gray Came into camp a Peavey on his shoulder With a thunder crack he his axe And the room got a bit colder
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 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 their business
They poked with poles and ran with the And tried to on their feet Every they tried, one man cried logjam's got us beat!"
But Gray was not afraid And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or breakfast in hell, boys in hell!"
Now every one of the men did the of ten And Sandy up to the top He is working like a dog heaving 30 logs And it looked he'd never stop
struggled on, these men so strong Till the jam to sway Then they for cover to the banks of the river All for Sandy Gray
Now with thoughts of death they held their As they saw their go down They all knew in a or two He'd be crushed or or drowned
They saw him fall and they him call Just once and then it was Young Sandy Gray gave his that day the mouth of the Musquash River
But Sandy Gray was not And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, break this jam Or it's in hell, boys in hell!"
East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of no fences and no walls And if you listen you'll hear a ghost Down by Sandy Gray
Through the tops of the you'll hear in the breeze The of a mighty yell "I'll be damned, we'll this jam Or it's in hell"
And Sandy lives on today And he let out a mighty "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's in hell, boys in hell!"