THE BALLAD OF PAUL BUNYAN

PAUL BUNYAN WAS TALLER THAN A MAINE PINE TREE

BIGGER THAN KING KONG IN THAT OLD MOVIE

SOME CLAIM PAUL AND HIS GREAT OX WHOSE TAIL WAS BLUE

BUT PAUL WAS BORN IN BANGOR, MAINE IN 1802

ON A MAP YOU'LL SEE LAKES SIDE BY SIDE IN MAINE

THOSE ARE THE FOOTPRINTS FILLED BY YEARS OF RAIN

THEY LEFT A MARK IN HISTORY LEFT SUCH AN IMPACT

OLE BABE THE BLUE OX PAUL BUNYAN THE LUMBERJACK

CHORUS

WELL PAUL WAS KING OF LUMBER WHEN LUMBER WAS KING

OH WHAT A TRACKER HE COULD TRACK ANYTHING

ONCE HE FOUND A CARCASS OF AN OLD MOOSE AT DAWN

HE FOLLOWED THE HOOFPRINTS BACK TO WHERE IT WAS BORN

WHERE EVER PAUL WOULD TRAVEL BABE WAS SURE TO GO

BECAUSE OF THE FRIENDSHIP PAUL WAS DEALT A BIG BLOW

WITH BABE'S EVERY STEP HE TORE UP TONS OF ROCK

TOO MANY TREES WERE SQUASHED BECAUSE OF PAUL'S BLUE OX

ALL THE LUMBERJACKS AND TOWN FOLK BEGAN TO COMPLAIN

THE WOODS WERE DISAPPEARING IN THE STATE OF MAINE

PAUL TRIED TO TIE BABE WITH A ROPE OF STRONGEST STEEL

BUT HE NIBBLED THROUGH THE STRAINS LIKE GRASS IN A FIELD

REPEAT CHORUS

WITH A HEAVEY HEART PAUL KNEW WHAT HE MUST DO

PAUL KISSED THE GROUND HE LOVED THEN HE LED OLE BLUE

OUT OF THE MAINE WOODS TO ADVENTURES WAY OUT WEST

WHERE THEY DUG THE GRAND CANYON AND TOOK THEIR FINAL REST

REPEAT CHORUS

Songwriters

Joe Pickering Jr. and Joe Terry

Singer and Arranger

Danny Mack