Chainsaw Master
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Heres a poem I used to pin up on sawmill bulletin boards while delivering logs
The Loggers Lament
I headed for the logging woods and took my chopping ax,
I had to find some money quick to pay my income tax.
I felled me down a whopping tree and hauled it to the mill,
I figured that I had enough to pay that doggone bill.
The scaler took his cheating stick and ambled down that log
When he got through a figuring up -- my mind just slipped a cog:
Cause he took two inches off for bark -- the rest he took for rot,
When Jesse James pulled a trick like that the -- highway man was shot!
But the scaler -- he's an honest man -- he gypped me fair and square.
He said, " I'd give you more my friend but the scale just isn't there.""
So I had to sell my logging truck, I hocked my chopping ax,
I had to find another way to pay my income tax:
I'm going off to logging school, I'm going to learn to scale.
It's a dam good way to rob a man and still stay out of jail........
(author unknown)
The Loggers Lament
I headed for the logging woods and took my chopping ax,
I had to find some money quick to pay my income tax.
I felled me down a whopping tree and hauled it to the mill,
I figured that I had enough to pay that doggone bill.
The scaler took his cheating stick and ambled down that log
When he got through a figuring up -- my mind just slipped a cog:
Cause he took two inches off for bark -- the rest he took for rot,
When Jesse James pulled a trick like that the -- highway man was shot!
But the scaler -- he's an honest man -- he gypped me fair and square.
He said, " I'd give you more my friend but the scale just isn't there.""
So I had to sell my logging truck, I hocked my chopping ax,
I had to find another way to pay my income tax:
I'm going off to logging school, I'm going to learn to scale.
It's a dam good way to rob a man and still stay out of jail........
(author unknown)
