Logging Town

from Westside by Jodie Jean Marston

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Everything in this song is true. It is about Westside Lumber mill and my family who settled in Tuolumne City in the late 1800's from Cornwall, England, they were Cornish miners.

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Every time I walk around this old logging town
The ghosts of my family follow me around
I hear their laughter from a dirty joke
See their faces in the boarded up windows
Stories that won’t never be written down
About this old logging town

I smell the sweat of their labor
Seen the harvest of what they sowed
Where that timber money is, it was gone long ago
Not a one of us could be tamed
Lost all our land in a poker game
Chopin’ wood with both eyes closed

*Westside of the timberline
East of the Queen of the Southern mines
Memories wrap ‘round the roots of a live oak
There lies the stories left untold

Great Grand-dad ran a mill camp
His name was Julian, he had everyone called him ‘Bill’
He built a snow plow for the train
So, work was earlier in the spring and later in the fall
never asked for nothing at all

I was born with calloused hands
My Daddy fought in Vietnam
I don’t have to look too far to know who I am
I am a chain-set driver, timber faller, whistle punk and high climber
waiting for the sun to go down

*

The mill pond is empty
gone are the day when there was plenty
of sugar pine comin’ down on the rails
It was somethin’ to see, stacked up high as the moon
We were proud the best lumber around
came from my little logging town

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from Westside, released July 16, 2022
Logging Town is written and recorded by Jodie Jean Marston
at Cosmic Cowgirl Music in Talent, Oregon

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Jodie Jean Marston Talent, Oregon

Jodie Jean Marston started playing live in 1986. Jodie Jean has lived and toured all over the US and internationally. She was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada foothills in the town of Tuolumne City, CA. She is also a maker of magic, mother and runs a small farm with a flock of sheep. Songs are recorded in Talent, Oregon at Cosmic Cowgirl Records. ... more

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