Logging Camp Christmas chords by Tamarack

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

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

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

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

Instrument Break:
C G C D C G Em G D C

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

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