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[Verse] C
In the melting snows of Ontario
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Where the wind'll make you shiver
C
'Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River
CG
Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl
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And you can hear the osprey scream
G
Back in 'Ninety-Nine we were cutting pine
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And sending it down the stream
C
Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay
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All the way from P.E.I.
C
Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough
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And no man's afraid to die
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Sandy came a-smiling, Thirty Thousand Islands
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Was the place to claim his glory
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Now Sandy's gone, but his name lives on
CG/BAm
This is Sandy's story
[Chorus]
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Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
Listen close and you'll hear a ghost
CG/BAm
In this story that I tell, boys
CG/BAm
This story that I tell
C
Now Sandy Gray was boss of the men who tossed
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The trees on to the shore
C
They'd come and go 'til they'd built a floe
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A hundred thousand logs or more
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Then he'd ride 'em down toward Severn Sound
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To cut 'em up in the mills for timber
G
And ships would haul, spring, summer and fall
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'Til the ice came in December
C
One Sabbath day, big Sandy Gray
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Came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder
C
With a thunder crack he dropped his axe
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And the room got a little bit colder
CG
Said, “Come on all you, we got work to do
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We gotta give her all we can give her”
G
“There's a jam of logs at the little jog
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River”
C
With no time to pray on the Lord's day
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They were hoping for god's forgiveness
C
But the jam was high in a troubled sky
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And they set out about their business
CG
They poked with their poles and ran with the rolls
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And tried to stay on their feet
G
Every trick they tried, and one man cried
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“This log jam's got us beat!”
[Chorus]
CAmCAm
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
CG/BAmC
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
G/BAm
“Breakfast in Hell!”
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[Verse] C
Now every one of the men did the work of ten
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And Sandy scrambled up to the top
C
He's working like a dog, heaving thirty foot logs
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And it looked like he'd never stop
CG
And they struggled on, these men so strong
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'Til the jam began to sway
G
Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river
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All except for Sandy Gray
C
Now with thoughts of death, they held their breath
GAm
As they saw their friend go down
C
They all knew, in a second or two
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He'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
CG
Then they saw him fall, they heard him call
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Just once, then it was over
G
Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River
[Chorus]
CAmCAm
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
CG/BAmC
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
G/BAmCGCG/BAm
“Breakfast in Hell!”
[Verse]
C
East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of room
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There's no fences and no walls
C
And if you listen close, you'll hear a ghost
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Down by Sandy Gray Falls
CG
Through the tops of the trees, you'll hear in the breeze
CG/BAm
The echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
CG/BAm
Or it's breakfast in Hell!”
[Chorus]
CAmCAm
And Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
CG/BAmC
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
G/BAm
“Breakfast in Hell!”