VIDEO C G As I sat down one evening G C Twas in a small cafe C F A forty year old waitress G C To me these words did sayC G I see that you're a logger G C And not a common bum C F For no one but a logger G C Stirs coffee with his thumbC G I once had a logger lover G C There's none like him today C F If you poured whiskey on it G C He'd eat a bail of hayC G He never shaved a whisker G C Off of his horny hide C F He hammered in the bristles G C And bit them off insideC G My logger came to see me G C Twas on a winter's day C F He held me in a fond embrace G C That broke three vertebraeC G He kissed me when we parted G C So hard it broke my jaw C F I couldn't speak to tell him G C He forgot his mackinawC G I saw my logger lover G C Go stridin' through the snow C F A -goin' gaily homeward G C At forty-eight belowC G The weather tried to freeze him G C It did its very best C F At a hundred degrees below zero G C He buttoned up his vestC G It froze clear down to China G C It froze to the stars above C F At a thousand degrees below zero G C It froze my logger loveC G They tried in vain to thaw him G C And if you believe it sir C F They made him into axe blades G C To cut the Douglas FirC G And so I lost my logger G C And to this cafe I've come C F And it's here I wait for someone G C To stir coffee with his thumb