Log Driver's Waltz

Jesse Ferguson performing Wade Hemsworth's song, "The Log Driver's Waltz." Chords and lyrics below.

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The Log Driver’s Waltz
(Wade Hemsworth, arrang. J. Ferguson, Jan. 2014)

Capo @ 1, 3/4, 144 bpm

V1.
D G
If you ask any girl from the parish around
A A7 D
what pleases her most from her head to her toes,
D G
she'll say, "I'm not sure that it's business of yours,
A A7 D
but I do like to waltz with a log driver."

Chorus:
D G
For he goes birling down and down the white water;
D A A7
that's where the log driver learns to step lightly.
D G
For he goes birling down and down the white water;
D A D
the log driver's waltz pleases girls completely.

Interlude: whistle melody over D A D

V2.
When the drive's nearly over, we like to go down
and watch all the lads as they work on the river.
We know that come evening they'll be in the town,
and we all like to waltz with a log driver.

Chorus:

V3.
To please both my parents I've had to give way,
and dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers.
Their manners are fine, but their feet are of clay,
and none have the style of my log driver.

Chorus:

V4.
Now, I've had my chances with all sorts of men,
but none is so fine as me lad on the river.
And when the drive's over, if he asks me again,
I surely will marry my log driver.

Chorus: [repeat and draw out final line]