Breakfast In Hell

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In the melting snows of Ontario
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Where the wind'll make you shiver
'Twas the month of May up in 
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Georgian Bay
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River
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Where the bears prowl and the 
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coyotes howl
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And you can hear the osprey scream
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Back in 'Ninety-Nine we were cutting
 pine
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And sending it down the stream
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Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay
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All the way from P.E.I.
Where the weather's rough and it 
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makes you tough
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And no man's afraid to die
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Sandy came a-smiling, Thirty 
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Thousand Islands
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Was the place to claim his glory
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Now Sandy's gone, but his name lives
 on
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This is Sandy's story

[Chorus]
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Young Sandy Gray lives on today in
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 the echoes of a mighty yell
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Listen close and you'll hear a ghost
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In this story that I tell, boys
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This story that I tell
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Now Sandy Gray was boss of the men 
who tossed
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The trees on to the shore
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They'd come and go 'til they'd built
 a floe
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A hundred thousand logs or more
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Then he'd ride 'em down toward 
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Severn Sound
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To cut 'em up in the mills for 
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timber
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And ships would haul, spring, summer
 and fall
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'Til the ice came in December
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One Sabbath day, big Sandy Gray
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Came into camp with a peavey on his
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 shoulder
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With a thunder crack he dropped his 
axe
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And the room got a little bit colder
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Said, “Come on all you, we got work 
to do
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We gotta give her all we can give 
her”
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“There's a jam of logs at the little
 jog
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Near the mouth of the Musquash 
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River”
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With no time to pray on the Lord's 
day
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They were hoping for god's 
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forgiveness
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But the jam was high in a troubled 
sky
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And they set out about their 
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business
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They poked with their poles and ran 
with the rolls
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And tried to stay on their feet
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Every trick they tried, and one man 
cried
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“This log jam's got us beat!”

[Chorus]
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid and 
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he let out a mighty yell
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“I'll be damned, we'll break this 
jam
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Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
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“Breakfast in Hell!”

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Now every one of the men did the 
work of ten
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And Sandy scrambled up to the top
He's working like a dog, heaving 
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thirty foot logs
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And it looked like he'd never stop
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And they struggled on, these men so 
strong
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'Til the jam began to sway
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Then they dove for cover to the 
banks of the river
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All except for Sandy Gray
Now with thoughts of death, they 
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held their breath
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As they saw their friend go down
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They all knew, in a second or two
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He'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
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Then they saw him fall, they heard 
him call
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Just once, then it was over
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Young Sandy Gray gave his life that 
day
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Near the mouth of the Musquash River

[Chorus]
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid and 
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he let out a mighty yell
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“I'll be damned, we'll break this 
jam
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Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
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“Breakfast in Hell!”
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[Verse]
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East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty 
of room
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There's no fences and no walls
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And if you listen close, you'll hear
 a ghost
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Down by Sandy Gray Falls
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Through the tops of the trees, 
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you'll hear in the breeze
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The echoes of a mighty yell
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“I'll be damned, we'll break this 
jam
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Or it's breakfast in Hell!”

[Chorus]
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And Sandy Gray lives on today in 
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the echoes of  a mighty yell
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“I'll be damned, we'll break this 
jam
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Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
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“Breakfast in Hell!”