Slaid Cleaves

Slaid Cleaves - Breakfast In Hell guitar chord

Breakfast In Hell

By Slaid Cleaves

Capo 2

Intro chords:

Am C G C C/B Am

Am C G Am

In the melting snows of Ontario where the wind'll make you shiver

Am C G Am

'Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay near the mouth of the Musquash River

C G C C/B Am

Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl and you can hear the osprey scream

G C C/B Am

Back in '99 we were cutting pine and sending it down the stream

Young Sandy Gray came to Go Hon Bay all the way from PEI

Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough, no man's afraid to die

Sandy came a smilin', 30,000 Islands was the place to claim his glory

Now Sandy's gone but his name lives on, and this is Sandy's story

Chorus 1:

C Am C Am

Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell

G

Listen close and you'll hear a ghost

C C/B Am

In this story that I tell, boys

C C/B Am

This story that I tell

Now Sandy Gray was boss of the men who'd toss the trees onto the shore

They'd come and go till they'd built a floe of 100,000 logs or more

And he'd ride 'em down toward Severn Sound to cut 'em up in the mills for timber

And ships would haul, spring, summer, and fall, 'til the ice came in December

One Sabbath Day, big Sandy Gray came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder

With a thunder crack he dropped his axe and the room got a little bit colder

Said 'Come all you, we've got work to do We've gotta give 'er all we can give 'er

'There's a jam of logs at the little jog near the mouth of the Musquash River

With no time to pray on the Lord's Day, they were hoping for God's forgiveness

But the jam was high in a troubled sky and they set about their business

They poked with their poles and ran with the rolls and tried to stay on their feet

Every trick they tried and one man cried 'This log jam's got us beat'

Chorus 2:

But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell

'I'll be damned, we'll break this jam,

Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys'

Breakfast in Hell'

Now every one of the men did the work of ten and Sandy scrambled up to the top

He's working like a dog heaving 30 foot logs and it looked like he'd never stop

They struggled on those men so strong till the jam began to sway

Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river all except for Sandy Gray

Now with thoughts of death they held their breath as they saw their friend go down

They all knew in a second or two he'd be crushed or frozen or drowned

They saw him fall and they heard him call, just once and then it was over

Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day near the mouth of the Musquash River

Chorus 2

East of Giant's Tomb, there's plenty of room, there's no fences and no walls

And if you listen close, you'll hear a ghost, down by Sandy Gray Falls

Through the tops of the trees, you'll hear in the breeze, the echoes of a might yell

'I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell'

Chorus 3:

And Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell

'I'll be damned, we'll break this jam,

Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys'

'Breakfast in Hell'

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