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===Music=== ====Songs==== * Lumberjacks rapidly developed their own distinctive musical culture of [[work songs]]. Many were based on traditional European folk tunes, with lyrics that reflected the lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with the themes of cutting, hauling, rolling, and driving, as well as narrative songs that involved romance.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mood, T. A. |title=American Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date= 2004|pages= 220β222}}</ref> * ''Big Joe Mufferaw'', a song recorded and performed by [[Stompin' Tom Connors]], one of Canada's most prolific and well-known country and folk singer-songwriters, about legendary folk hero [[Joseph Montferrand]], a French-Canadian logger. This song appears on the album ''Stompin' Tom Meets Big Joe Mufferaw'' (1970), on the live album ''Live At The Horseshoe'' (1971), and on the album ''Move Along With Stompin' Tom'' (1999). * ''[[The Log Driver's Waltz]]'', a 1956 song by [[Wade Hemsworth]] on his album ''Folk Songs of the Canadian North Woods''<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of The Log Driver's Waltz|date=December 8, 2016|last=Levy|first=Joel|url=http://torontoguardian.com/2016/12/nfb-history-log-drivers-waltz/|publisher=The Toronto Guardian|access-date=March 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211141428/http://torontoguardian.com/2016/12/nfb-history-log-drivers-waltz/|archive-date=2016-12-11|url-status=live}}</ref> * ''Lumberjack'', a 1960 song by [[Johnny Cash]] on his album ''[[Ride This Train]]'' * ''[[The Lumberjack (Hal Willis song)|The Lumberjack]]'', a song by [[Hal Willis (singer)|Hal Willis]] * ''The Lumberjack'', a song featuring a chainsaw solo, by the American rock band [[Jackyl]] * ''[[The Lumberjack Song]]'', a song by [[Monty Python]], known for its [[refrain]]: "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay / I sleep all night and I work all day. ..."
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