"The Lumber Camp Song" is an American and Canadian ballad. The earliest known date of it being collected is 1896. The term "lumberjack" is somewhat archaic, usually referring to a logger from an earlier time before the advent of chainsaws and other mechanized logging equipment. Lumberjacks were exclusively men who worked in lumber camps, often living a migratory life, following timber harvesting as jobs opened. Their work was seasonal and usually involved living in bunkhouses or tents for months at a time. Camps could be found where there were vast forests to be harvested and a demand for wood. Common tools included the axe and the crosscut saw. Lumber camps developed a distinctive culture of work songs which were often sung on Sundays or evenings after supper and tool cleanup. Many were based on traditional tunes with lyrics that reflected lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with themes of cutting, hauling, rolling and driving, as well as narrative songs which involved romance. The songs migrated with the lumberjacks who sang them. It was printed in Beck's Lore of the Lumber Camps (1948), Beck's Songs of the Michigan Lumberjacks (1941), Beck's They Knew Paul Bunyan (1956), Cazden, Haufrecht and Studer's Folk Songs of the Catskills (1982), Dibblee's Folksongs from Prince Edward Island (1973), Doerflinger's Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman (1972), Eckstorm and Smyth's Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk-Songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast (1927), Flanders and Olney's Ballads Migrant in New England (1953), Fowke and Johnston's Folk Songs of Canada (1954), Fowke's Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods (1970), Gardner and Chickering's Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan (1939), Greenleaf and Mansfield's Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland (1933), Korson's Pennsylvania Songs and Legends (1949), Lewis' Favorite Michigan Folk Songs (1987), Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965), Peters's Folk Songs out of Wisconsin (1977), Rickaby's (Dykstra and Leary ed.) Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era (2017) and Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy (1926). It is in the Roud Folksong Index as #667. It was recorded by Joe Glazer on Songs for Woodworkers (1977).