Lyr Add: Lumberjack (Brook Benton)

Subject: Lyr Add: LUMBERJACK (Brook Benton)
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Date: 19 Jul 01 - 10:03 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Need Name of old blues tune and sin
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Jul 01 - 12:12 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Need Name of old blues tune and sin
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:46 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Need name of old blues tune and singer
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 11:57 PM

Top40db.net says it's LUMBERJACK recorded by Brook Benton in 1964. I'm a little suspicious of the lyrics they have there. "She stole my pick"? "This was a fine"?