In the snows of Ontario Where the make you shiver It was the of May up in Georgian Bay Near the of the Musquash River
the bears prowl and the coyotes howl And you can hear the osprey Back in '99 we were cutting And sending it the stream
Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay All the way P.E.I. Where the weather's rough and it makes you No man's to die
Sandy a smilin', Thirty 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 you'll a ghost In this that I tell, boys story that I tell
Now Gray was boss of the men who'd toss The trees onto the come and go till they'd built a floe 100,000 or more
And he'd 'em down toward Severn Sound To cut 'em up in the for timber And the ships would spring summer and fall Till the ice came in
One Sabbath Day big Gray Came into with 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 give 'er all we can 'er There's a jam of at the little jog the mouth of the Musquash River"
With no time to 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 with poles and ran with the rolls And tried to on their feet Every trick tried, one man cried logjam's got us beat!"
But Sandy Gray was not And he let out a yell "I'll be damned, we'll this jam Or it's in hell, boys 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 never stop
They on, these men so strong the jam began to sway Then they for cover to the banks of the river All for Sandy Gray
Now with thoughts of death they held breath As they saw their friend go They all in a second or two He'd be crushed or frozen or
They saw him fall and they heard him Just once and it was over Young Sandy Gray gave his life 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 breakfast in hell, boys in hell!"
East of Giant's there's plenty of room no fences and no walls And if you listen close you'll hear a by Sandy Gray Falls
Through the tops of the trees you'll in the breeze The echoes of a mighty "I'll be damned, break this jam Or breakfast in hell"
And Sandy Gray on today And he let out a mighty "I'll be damned, we'll break jam Or it's in hell, boys in hell!"