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* "The Haircut Song" by [[Ray Stevens]] is about a variety of haircuts Stevens has received from insane barbers. Whenever he is feeling intimidated by a barber and is asked what he does for a living, his immediate response is "I'm a logger!":
* "The Haircut Song" by [[Ray Stevens]] is about a variety of haircuts Stevens has received from insane barbers. Whenever he is feeling intimidated by a barber and is asked what he does for a living, his immediate response is "I'm a logger!":
{{quote|Now a lot of people would be intimidated in a situation like this...I was not. I am what I am, play my piano, and sing my little songs. I looked him right in the eye and I said, I'm a logger - just up from Coos Bay, Oregon. Been toppin' trees - quite possibly the toughest man in the entire world.}}
{{quote|Now a lot of people would be intimidated in a situation like this...I was not. I am what I am, play my piano, and sing my little songs. I looked him right in the eye and I said, I'm a logger - just up from Coos Bay, Oregon. Been toppin' trees - quite possibly the toughest man in the entire world.}}
* "The Lumberjack Song" from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Lumberjacks are given the same treatment in that song as Arthurian Myths were given in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.


== Oral Tradition ==
== Oral Tradition ==