"The Log Drivers Waltz"

We play this in a set with 'The Chapeau Boys'.

Wikipedia claims that this is an original tune and song by Wade Hemsworth, but a contributor to the Session recognized the tune as the 'Rustic Dance'. The Fiddler's Companion has the following info (http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/RP_RZ.htm#RUSTIC_DANCE--SCOTTISCHE_[3]) about that tune;

AKA and see "Billy Wilson's Clog," "California Dance," "California Hornpipe," "Evening Pleasures Schottische," "Kenion Clog," "The Mason-Dixon Schottische," "Nightingale (Clog) [2]," "O Dear Mother My Toes Are Sore [1]," "Parkersburg Landing," "Peacock Rag," "Rustic Hornpipe," "Starlight Clog," "Wilson's Clog [2]." American, Canadian; Schottische. USA; Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, New York. D Major (Christeson): C Major (Messer). Standard tuning. AABB (Messer): ABC (Christeson). A common, though widely varied dance tune in the East, Midwest and other parts of the country. It can be heard rendered in various rhythms, including a schottische, although some maintain that it is actually a difficult tune to perform that dance to. Northeastern Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley told writer and old-time fiddler Kerry Blech that a lot of the old-timers in his area played it but that he did not recall anyone dancing to it. Musicologist Jim Kimball, however, reports the tune is commonly played for a schottische for community dances in western New York and that fiddler Mark Hamilton plays a two part version in C which he calls "Humpty Dumpty Schottische." He thinks his dad learned it when visiting the Toronto World's Fair in 1902. Fiddler Lauchlin Shaw, from the North Carolina piedmont region, had the tune in his repertoire, learned from Virgil Craven. Fiddler Les Raber of Hastings, Michigan, played the tune in the key of C Major, as did Lonnie Austin of the Spray/Eden area of North Carolina. West Virginia traditional musician Burl Hammons played it on the banjo and called it "Wilson's Clog."

Found on the Session;

The Log Driver's Waltz
(Wade Hemsworth, copyright)

If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes,
She'll say - I'm not sure that it's business of yours,
But I do like to waltz with a log driver.

Chorus: For he goes birling down a-down the white water;
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly.
It's birling down, a-down white water;
A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely.

When the drive's nearly over, I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river.
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all want to waltz with a log driver.

To please both my parents I've had to give way
And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers.
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
For there's none with the style of a log driver.

I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river.
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again,
I think I will marry my log driver.

Recorded by Kate and Anna McGarrigle for animated cartoon "Log Driver's Waltz" by Canada's National Film Board.