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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What better song for a wintry February day than a doleful waltz about a lonely waitress lamenting the tragic death of her sweetheart, on his way home from their final tryst…<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-220 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frozen-Logger.jpg?resize=242%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Frozen Logger\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frozen-Logger.jpg?resize=242%2C300&ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frozen-Logger.jpg?w=250&ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/>This is another I got from Cisco — I’d heard it before I discovered him, sung by Oscar Brand on\u00a0<em>Everybody Sing! Songs for Juniors<\/em>, and vaguely recall a verse in which, after the logger freezes to death, they stick him outside as a hitching post — but the version I learned was from Cisco’s songbook, and I still picture the accompanying illustration when I think of it.<\/p>\n<p>I always enjoyed the story, but never gave a thought to who might have written it or why until now — and I’m pleased to find that the author, James Stevens, a self-described “hobo laborer with wishful literary yearning,” actually spent some of his youth working in the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest, wrote multiple books about Paul Bunyan, and became the public relations director for the West Coast Lumberman’s Association.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-219 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/JamesStevens.jpg?resize=200%2C276&ssl=1\" alt=\"JamesStevens\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" \/>In “Bunk Shanty Ballads and Tales,” a talk for the Oregon Historical Society, Stevens explained that\u00a0 he composed “The Frozen Logger” for a radio program of Paul Bunyan stories in 1929. 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