Logging Camp Christmas chords by Tamarack

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
G+G
Oh the snow falls soft round the old cabin door,
    C majorC          G+G
The baby lies sleeping so still;
    C majorC               G+G     E minorEm
And she imagines she hears the faint ring of an axe
    A augmentedA         D MajorD
‘Way back in the Pontiac hills.
     G+G
Well, the days grind by just like a log in a jam,
    C majorC            G+G
In the window the candle burns low;
     C majorC              G+G        E minorEm
It’s been weeks since he left to head north to the camps-
      G+G       D MajorD         G+G
There’ll be months before spring brings him home.

Chorus:
     C majorC              G+G
And in the shanty they’re dancin’ on a hard-packed dirt floor
     C majorC                      D MajorD
While the fiddler scrapes out them old tunes one time more;
     C majorC                 G+G       E minorEm
And he’s wond-rin’ why he’s there far from fam’ly and friends
    G+G     D MajorD      C majorC
In a logging camp Christmas again.
  G+G            D MajorD
And wasn’t it this time last year that he swore
    C majorC                G+G      D MajorD
That he wouldn’t spend Christmas in the log camps no more?
      G+G             C majorC       G+G
But there’s too little choice when the livin’s this poor;
          D MajorD      G+G
It’s the only way a man can survive.

Verse 2:
     G+G
Well, the wood’s gettin’ low by the fire tonight
     C majorC            G+G
And she’ll up before dawn to cut more
    C majorC          G+G       E minorEm
But it seems only right to let it burn bright
      A augmentedA                 D MajorD
‘cause it’s Christmas and her heart’s feelin’ sore.
     G+G
Well, it isn’t the work that she minds when he’s gone
    C majorC               G+G
And the neighbours help out when they can,
     C majorC           G+G        E minorEm
It’s the time slipping by from life that’s too young
   G+G      D MajorD      G+G
To be living this far from her man.

Chorus:
     C majorC            G+G
In the shanty they’re dancin’ on a hard-packed dirt floor
     C majorC                      D MajorD
While the fiddler scrapes out them old tunes one time more;
     C majorC                 G+G       E minorEm
And he’s wond-rin’ why he’s there far from fam’ly and friends
   G+G      D MajorD      C majorC
In a logging camp Christmas again.
  G+G            D MajorD
And wasn’t it this time last year that he swore
    C majorC                G+G       D MajorD
That he wouldn’t spend Christmas in the log camps no more?
      G+G             C majorC       G+G
But there’s too little choice when the livin’s this poor;
          D MajorD      G+G
It’s the only way a man can survive.

Instrument Break:
C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G E minorEm G+G D MajorD C majorC

Chorus:
     C majorC            G+G
In the shanty they’re dancin’ on a hard-packed dirt floor
     C majorC                      D MajorD
While the fiddler scrapes out them old tunes one time more;
     C majorC                 G+G       E minorEm
And he’s wond-rin’ why he’s there far from fam’ly and friends
   G+G      D MajorD      C majorC
In a logging camp Christmas again.
  G+G            D MajorD
And wasn’t it this time last year that he swore
    C majorC                G+G       D MajorD
That he wouldn’t spend Christmas in the log camps no more?
      G+G             C majorC       G+G
But there’s too little choice when the livin’s this poor;
          D MajorD      G+G
It’s the only way a man can survive.

Outro:
G+G
Oh the snow falls soft round the old cabin door,
    C majorC            G+G
The baby lies sleeping so still;
    C majorC               G+G     E minorEm
And she imagines she hears the faint ring of an axe
    A augmentedA              D MajorD