Seeking info on a funny song that starts out, or at least has, these exact words:
“I see that you are a logger, and not just a common bum,
'cause nobody but a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb.”
The female singer then goes on to say that her sweetheart, a logger, had to leave her late one very cold night, and…
“He kissed me when he left me, so hard that he broke my jaw.
I couldn’t speak to tell him, he’d forgot his mackinaw.”
The singer continues about how extremely cold it got that night, and bemoans that fact that her lover, I think, froze… does anyone know who wrote or recorded this song?
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Do a search on the song title “My Logger Lover”.
PS: Welcome to the boards!
I thought the title was simply “The Frozen Logger”. Johnny Cash did one version.
That would be the Weavers. The vocalist is Ronnie Gilbert. This group was very popular in progressive and labor circles until they were blacklisted during anti-communist witch hunt of the late 40’s and 50’s. All their music, and it is great music, is available through that giant e-commerce distributer of music on the web. Try a search engine, keywords weavers music seeger (as in Pete Seeger, the groups founder).
And welcome to the SDMB. You can find out just about anything here.
This lists the only lyrics I’ve ever heard.
I have this song on the Tin Pan Angel CD by Odetta, a folk singer in the 50’s and 60’s.