When the girls have filched your cash,

There is still the hearty ash,

It is waiting at Seboomook for to cheer your

foolish soul.

Ah, you know we love it most; and I give

you this, my toast,

The river driver’s darling, oh, his long ash pole.

We’ve ridden the gorges on rioting logs, and

we’ve always swept safe to the land.

So long as we rode with the spikes in our boots,