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'''LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ.''' Canadian, Air and Waltz (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'.  Composed by Canadian folksinger Wade Hemsworth (1915-2002). The song has become a classic of Canadian folk music, and begins:
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''If you should ask any girl from the parish around''<br>
''What pleases her most from her head to her toes,''<br>
''She’ll say - I’m not sure that it’s business of yours,''<br>
''But I do like to waltz with a log driver.''<br>
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''For he goes birling down a-down the white water;''<br>
''That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly.''<br>
''It’s birling down, a-down white water;''<br>
''A log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.''<br>
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The melody for the song is borrowed and began not as a waltz, but as a schottische. It is quite widespread as a duple-time schottische or clog, albeit primarily in the first strain (with a variety of second strains attached), and can be found under titles "[[Evening Pleasures Schottische]]," "[[Limber Neck Blues]]", "[[Clog in C Major]]," "[[Starlight Clog]]," "[[Nightingale (2) (The)]]," "[[Rustic Dance (3)]]," among others. However, it seems likely that Hemsworth's source for the melody he adapted is from Don Messer's 1937 recording called "[[Billy Wilson's Clog]]" (later published by Messer as "[[Clog in C Major]]").   
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See also listing at:<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l09.htm#Logdrwa]<br>
See John Weldon's 1979 animated short "Log Driver's Waltz" [http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/]<br>
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