The Frozen Logger-Odetta & Larry

[ti:The Frozen Logger (1954)] [ar:Odetta] [al:Complete Collection: 1954 - 1962] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Frozen Logger - Odetta & Larry [00:03.35]As I sat down one evening [00:06.35] [00:07.30]Was in a small café [00:10.52] [00:11.13]A forty year old waitress to me [00:14.97]These words did say [00:18.24] [00:19.75]I see you that you are a logger [00:23.84]And not just a common bum [00:26.67] [00:27.55]'Cause nobody but a logger [00:30.56]Stirs his coffee with his thumb [00:35.72] [00:36.56]My lover he was a logger [00:39.81] [00:40.51]There's none like him today [00:43.38] [00:44.35]Well if you'd pour whiskey on it [00:46.95] [00:47.68]Well he'd eat a bale of hay [00:51.79] [00:53.23]He never sharing his whiskey [00:57.27]To shave his horny hide [01:00.35] [01:00.93]He'd just drive them in with a hammer [01:04.32]Then he'd bite them off inside [01:08.59] [01:09.97]My lover he came to see me [01:13.12] [01:14.06]Was on a freezing day [01:17.07] [01:17.92]He held me in a fond embrace [01:21.18]That broke three vertebraes [01:25.42] [01:26.87]Well he kissed me when we parted [01:30.07] [01:30.73]So hard that he broke my jaw [01:34.29] [01:34.80]And I could not speak to tell him [01:38.04]He forgot his mackinaw [01:42.26] [01:43.63]I saw my lover leaving [01:46.87] [01:47.79]Sauntering through the snow [01:50.74] [01:51.75]Well going grimly homeward [01:55.01]At forty eight below [01:58.68] [02:00.46]Wll the weather tried to freeze him [02:03.50] [02:04.37]It tried its level best [02:07.12] [02:07.81]At a hundred degrees below zero [02:10.75] [02:11.59]He buttoned up his vest [02:14.78] [02:17.08]It froze clean through to China [02:20.11] [02:21.21]And it froze to the stars above [02:24.09] [02:24.86]And at a thousand degrees below zero [02:28.33]It froze my logger love [02:32.92] [02:34.15]And so I lost my lover [02:37.68] [02:38.19]And to this café I come [02:41.28] [02:41.88]And here I wait till someone [02:45.18]Stirs his coffee with his thumb