The Log Driver’s waltz pleases girls completely

Posted on May 28, 2007
Filed Under Australia - The land down under |

We were sitting at the dinner table tonight reminiscing about the old Canadian Minute Heritage commercials on TV in Canada when this tune popped into my head and stuck there. I think it may have run on CBS or CBC but I might be mistaken, please correct me if you know!

In any case, I remember loving the song but not really understanding it as a kid. I couldn’t believe it when I found found it on YouTube quick as can be! Here are the lyrics for those who just need to know…like me!

If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes
She’ll say, “I’m not sure that it’s business of yours
But I do like to waltz with a log driver”.

Chorus
For he goes birling down a-down the white water
That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly
It’s birling down, a-down white water
A log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.

When the drive’s nearly over, I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river
I know that come evening they’ll be in the town
And we all want to waltz with a log driver.

To please both my parents I’ve had to give way
And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
For there’s none with the style of a log driver.

I’ve had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river
So when the drive’s over, if he asks me again
I think I will marry my log driver.”

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