[Verse 1] Many, many years ago When this land was young A lot of our country was covered By big tall beautiful trees And men had to have the trees To make wood, to build houses Make furniture with, to make boats Even to make paper with So as more and more people came More wood was needed So more and more trees Were cut down And the man that lived in the forest And cut down the trees Was called the Timber man Well, my world is green and dark and dumb My home is in the logging camp All week I cut down the mighty trees Saturday I get to do as I please I give the man more than his hire And hell never know it if I tire Show me the toughest tree around The Timber man will bring it down [Chorus] Swing it hard, cut it clean No halfway or inbetween Move when the axe is in my hand Make way for the Timber man [Verse 2] Yeah, he was a mighty big tough man usually That Timber man that lived in that forest And cut down those big trees Well, they say theres sawdust in my brain And dont get caught out in the rain I got stump water in my blood The sweat from my brow turns the ground to mud When the men dont know how to fell a tree The one theyll come and ask is me Ill mark my spot and Ill take my stand The trees going to fall for the Timber man [Chorus] [Outro] And when theyre cutting on a tree And its just about ready to fall The man yells out timber, timber
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