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GUEST,r.greer@sympatico.ca Lyr Add: Lumberjack (Brook Benton) (4) Lyr Add: LUMBERJACK (Brook Benton) 19 Jul 01


For my woman I was a lumberjack
For my woman I broke my back
Working all day long in the hot blistering sun
Making big old trees into little bitty ones.

While I worked she stole my pay and ran away
With her man. That was their plan.
Ain't it funny what a smile and a kiss can do
When the woman ain’t worth the heel off a good mans shoe

She left me here to hold
An achin' back and a broken heart
Just a broken hearted man
Swillin' from my jug.


Close as I can get as it has been at least forty years
Any help with song name an author would be great

On the flip side was a song about never going to bed on an unsolved argument.
All I can remember is the line "Don’t do what I did, Do what I say." Another good blues song though and I would love to get it back as well.

My best recall of the song on a record I had about forty years ago.


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