The Frozen Logger
Frozen Love's Frigid Tale: Logger's Romance in Ice
Lyrics
As I set down one evening in a timber town cafe
Setting the scene in a timber town cafe where the narrator is seated.
A six foot-seven waitress, to me these words did say
A tall waitress remarks on the narrator being a logger rather than a common bum.
"I see you are a logger and not a common bum
The waitress notes the uniqueness of loggers and implies a certain respect for them.
For no one but a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb
Highlighting a humorous characteristic of loggers, stirring coffee with the thumb.
"My lover was a logger, there's none like him today
Introducing the narrator's lover, a logger known for unusual habits.
If you'd sprinkle whisky on it, he'd eat a bale of hay
Describing the logger's ability to consume hay with the help of whisky.
He never shaved the whiskers from off his horny hide
Emphasizing the logger's ruggedness, never shaving his tough skin.
But he'd pound 'em in with a hammer, then bite 'em off inside
Humorously depicting the logger's method of dealing with whiskers.
"My lover came to see me one freezing winter day
Recalling a fond embrace from the logger that caused physical harm.
He held me in a fond embrace that broke three vertebrae
Highlighting the logger's strength by breaking three vertebrae in an embrace.
He kissed me when we parted so hard it broke my jaw
Describing a forceful kiss that broke the narrator's jaw.
And I could not speak to tell him he'd forgot his mackinaw
Expressing the inability to communicate due to a forgotten mackinaw (heavy jacket).
"I watched my logger lover going through the snow
Observing the logger walking in the snow at a very low temperature.
A-sauntering gaily homeward at forty eight below
Humorous portrayal of the logger walking cheerfully at a dangerously low temperature.
The weather tried to freeze him, it tried it's level best
Describing the extreme cold weather trying to freeze the logger.
At a hundred degrees below zero, he buttoned up his vest
Highlighting the logger's resilience even at an incredibly low temperature.
"It froze clean down to China, it froze to the stars above
Exaggerating the freezing conditions, suggesting the logger froze to the stars.
At one thousand degrees below zero it froze my logger love
Extreme exaggeration of the freezing, stating the logger was frozen at an impossible temperature.
They tried in vain to thaw him and if you'll believe me, sir
Describing futile attempts to thaw the frozen logger, leading to a drastic solution.
They made him into ax blades to chop the Douglas fir
Explaining the logger's transformation into ax blades for chopping Douglas fir trees.
"That's how I lost my lover and to this caffay I come
Revealing the narrator's loss of the logger and the reason for visiting the cafe.
And here I wait till someone stirs his coffee with his thumb
Expressing the narrator's routine of waiting for someone to stir coffee with a thumb.
And then I tell my story of my love they could not thaw
Sharing the narrator's desire to recount the story of the unfrozen logger.
Who kissed me when we parted so hard he broke my jaw"
Recalling the logger's powerful farewell kiss that caused a broken jaw.
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