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Cutting Down the Pines

from Upstate Crossroads by Tim Ball

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Cutting Down the Pines (trad.)

I learned this song from Songs to Keep, a PBS documentary featuring folk songs collected in the Adirondack mountains by Marjorie Lansing Porter.

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Good friends, all come and listen while I sing to you this song
It’s all about us pinewood boys and how we’re getting along
We’re a jolly bunch of fellows, so merry and so fine
Who spend the winter pleasantly–cutting down the pines!

We all go out of a cheerful heart and a well-contented mind
For the wintry winds do not blow cold among the waving pines
And it’s long our saws and axes ring, until the sun goes down
Hurrah, me boys, for the day is done! To the shanty we are bound!

Let’s drink a health to townsfolk fair who safe at home remain
They’ll not be killed by falling logs, but neither will they gain
While we who risk will reap rewards of money in good store
And hope that it will last us till we travel back for more.

When springtime rolls around, how glad will be it’s day
Some will return to their homes and friends while others will wander away
When floating ice goes down, and business it does thrive
Three hundred able-bodied men–are wanted on the drive!

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from Upstate Crossroads, released November 26, 2022
Tim Ball: vocals, fiddle, viola
Casey Murray: cello
Mark Bickford: concertina

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Tim Ball Ithaca, New York

Tim Ball is a fiddler and guitarist from Ithaca, NY. His music draws on the surrounding Irish-American, New England, Canadian, and bluegrass traditions, as well as tunes from old-time upstate New York fiddlers.

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