C G7 C C
C F Dm
If you should ask any girl from the parish around
G7 C
What pleases her most from her head to her toes
C F
She'll say I'm not sure that it's business of yours
G7 C
But I do like to waltz with a log driver
G7 C F
For he goes birling down a-down white water
C G7
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
C F
It's birling down a-down white water
C G7 C
A log drivers waltz pleases girls completely
C F Dm
When the drive's nearly over I like to go down
G7 C
To see all the lads while they work on the river
C F
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
G7 C
And we all want to waltz with a log driver
G7 C F
For he goes birling down a-down white water
C G7
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
C F
It's birling down a-down white water
C G7 C
A log drivers waltz pleases girls completely
C F Dm
To please both my parents I've had to give way
G7 C
And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers
C F Dm
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
G7 C
For there's none with the style of a log driver
G7 C F
For he goes birling down a-down white water
C G7
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
C F
It's birling down a-down white water
C G7 C
A log drivers waltz pleases girls completely
C F Dm
I've had my chances with all sorts of men
G7 C
But none is so fine as my lad on the river
C F
So when the drive's over if he asks me again
G7 C
I think I will marry my log driver
G7 C F
For he goes birling down a-down white water
C G7
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
C F
It's birling down a-down white water
C G7 C
A log drivers waltz pleases girls completely
G7 C F
For he goes birling down a-down white water
C G7
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
C F
It's birling down a-down white water
C G7 C
A log drivers waltz pleases girls completely