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Thread #17160 Message #2063487
Posted By: Barry Finn
29-May-07 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: Ice Harvesting Songs?
Subject: Lyr Add: ICE DAMMING (Barry Finn)
Hi Dave, hope all is well with you. Not an Ice Harvesting song but it should be a topical/tropical subject in your neck of the woods when you're in a good winter bout.
Ice Damming by Barry Finn
It's winter in New England and throughout the land The trucks will start rolling with all available hands It's a party, a picnic, a past time, a plan Over mountains of snow they attack the Ice Dams
Chorus: And you hear everywhere the cry Ice Dam Down the flue like a fever it spreads through the land Man your pickups, your axes, every woman and man And answer the call and the cry Ice Dam
Blaze a path round a house in snow that's waist deep Take a roof rake & a shovel, clear up 3 feet Crawl the edge of an dam on a roof that's too steep And start pounding on ice and let nobody sleep
On a 40 foot ladder that slides on the ice Out comes the homeowner who tries to be nice I like what you're doing but I won't pay you're price For a few dollars less would you still risk your life
Some shingles may break & the ice will sure fall But no more will the water run down your walls So pay us in cash & don't call our hall Is it illegal to be paid to have such a ball
Like ants, like termites we're all over your roof We sing ice dam and drink 100 proof It's our tough winter windfall & that's the dam truth When ice damming is done we're a winter recluse