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In the melting snows of Ontario where the wind'll make you shiver
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"˜Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay near the mouth of the Musquash River
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Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl and you can hear the osprey scream
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Back in '99 we were cutting pine and sending it down the stream
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Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay all the way from P.E.I.
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Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough, no man's afraid to die
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Sandy came a smilin', 30,000 Islands was the place to claim his glory
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Now Sandy's gone but his name lives on, and this is Sandy's story
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Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echos of a mighty yell
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Listen close and you'll hear a ghost in the 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'd toss the trees onto the shore
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They'd come and go til they'd built a floe 100,000 logs or more
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Then he'd ride "˜em down toward Severn Sound to cut "˜em up in the mills for timber
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And ships would haul spring summer and fall til the ice came in December
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One Sabbath Day big Sandy Gray came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder
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With a thundercrack he dropped his axe and the room got a little bit colder
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Said, "Come on all you. We got work to do. We gotta give "˜er all we can give "˜er"
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"There's a jam of logs at the little jog near the mouth of the Musquash River"
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With no time to pray on the Lord's day, they were hoping for God's forgiveness
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But the jam was high in a troubled sky and they set out about their business
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They poked with their poles and ran with the rolls and tried to stay on their feet
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Every trick they tried and one man cried, "This log jam's got us beat!"
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell:
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, 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 and Sandy scrambled up to the top
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He's working like a dog heaving 30 foot logs and it looked like he'd never stop
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They struggled on these men so strong til the jam began to sway
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Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river all except for Sandy Gray
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Now with thoughts of death they held their breath as they saw their friend go down
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They all knew in a second or two he'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
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They saw him fall they heard him call just once and then it was over
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Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day near the mouth of the Musquash River
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But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell:
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell, boys,"
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"Breakfast in Hell!"
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East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of room, there's no fences and no walls
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And if you listen close you'll hear a ghost down by Sandy Gray Falls
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Through the tops of the trees you'll hear in the breeze the echos of a mighty yell:
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell!"
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And Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell:
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"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell, boys,"
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"Breakfast in Hell!"
Slaid Cleaves: Breakfast In Hell
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