Paul Bunyan |
LyricsTHE BALLAD OF PAUL BUNYANPAUL 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 King of the Road Music BMI Publisher and Copyright Owner C.1996 |
| Song Length: 3:07 |
| Primary Genre: Country-Contemporary |
| Secondary Genre: - |