Lumberjack chords by Johnny Cash

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)



The verse goes with one strumm per chord.
On the last line of every verse start putting in the rhythm
and carry it through the chorus - return to single strums
on the last chorus line and transition into the next verse.

Listen to the original record and you'll
know how it's supposed to be played.


Verse 1:
  C                      Am C
I lived on a farm out in Iowa
  C                      C            G
I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay
    C                       C       Am
Got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free
          C             C       Am
Heard the Oregon timber calling me

Chorus:
         C                      Am    C
Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?
      C                   G
Is it one for forward and three for back?
      C               C        Am
Is it two for stop or four for go?
C                        Am      C
Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don't know


Verse 2:
        C                        Am           C
Well, I learned this fact from a logger named Ray
    C                     C     G
You don't cut timber on a windy day
     C                         C          Am
Stay out of the woods when the moisture's low
       C                   Am           C
Or you ain't gonna live to collect your dough


Chorus:
         C                      Am    C
Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?
      C                   G
Is it one for forward and three for back?
      C               C        Am
Is it two for stop or four for go?
C                        Am      C
Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don't know


Verse 3:
         C                      Am         C
Well you work in the woods from morning to night
    C                      C        G
You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight
   C                  C     Am
On Saturday night you go to Eugene
         C                    Am          C
And on a Sunday morning, your pockets are clean


Chorus:
         C                      Am    C
Will you tell me something, Mr. Lumberjack?
      C                   G
Is it one for forward and three for back?
      C               C        Am
Is it two for stop or four for go?
C                        Am      C
Boy, ask a whistle punk, I don't know