Log Driver's Waltz

Song Information

Composer: Wade Hemsworth

Lyric Author: Wade Hemsworth

Published: 1956

Country of origin: American/English

General Interest

The song celebrates the profession of log driving, a practice in the lumber industry which involved transporting felled timber by having workers walk or run on the logs as they floated down rivers.

This occupation required a great deal of strength and physical agility, and Hemsworth was struck by how much the sight of log drivers at work resembled dancing.

The word Birling comes from old Scots for “causing to rotate”

Here's a link to the Lyric:

Log Driver's Waltz Lyric

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