- Frozen Logger
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title=The Frozen Logger
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writer=James Stevens
composer=
lyricist=Ivar Haglund
published=1949
written=1928
language=English
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recorded_by=The Weavers 1951,Cisco Houston ,Jimmy Rogers ,Oscar Brand
performed_by=Bob Weir The Frozen Logger is an American folk song, written by James Stevens. [cite web |title=Time, December 31, 1951 |url=http://www.time.com/magazine/article/0,9171,821984,00.html?promoid=googlep |format=web review |accessdate=2008-01-26] It is a typical
tall tale , including the immortal line; "for nobody but a logger, stirs his coffee with his thumb".Discography
[ [http://www.deaddisc.com/songs/Frozen_Logger.htm Grateful Dead Family Discography] ]
*The Weavers 1951
*Odetta & Larry "The Tin Angel " 1954
*Cisco Houston "Hard Travellin" 1954
*Jimmy Rogers 1960
*Odetta "At the Town Hall" 1963
*Oscar Brand Cinema
An animated version is available as "The Frozen Logger" 1963.
Published
* Bunk Shanty Ballads and Tales, James Stevens, Oregon Historical Quarterly, volume 50, number 4. December 1949.
*Rise Up Singing 1988 page 137Parody
The Frozen Jogger. [cite web|last=Hendrickson |first=Stewart |title=James Stevens-Paul Bunyan and the Frozen Logger (Jogger) |url=http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hend/VictoryMusic/November2005Review.html |accessdate=2008-01-11]
References
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