Robin Williamson - The woodcutter's song lyrics

Words traditional English, music RW with fugal ideas by Chris Caswell 1978

Oak logs will warm you well

That are old and dry

Logs of pine will sweetly smell

But the sparks will fly

Birchs long will burn too fast

Chestnut scarce at all sir

Hawthorn logs are good to last

That are cut well in the fall sir

Surely you will find

There´s no compare with the hard wood logs

That´s cut in the winter time

Holly logs will burn like wax

You could burn them green

Elm logs burn like smouldering flax

With no flame to be seen

Beech logs for winter time

Yew logs as well sir

Green elder logs it is a crime

For any man to sell sir

Surely you will find

There´s no compare with the hard wood logs

That´s cut in the winter time

Pear logs and apple logs

They will scent your room

and cherry logs across the dogs

They smell like flowers of broom

But ash logs smooth and grey

Buy them green or old, sir

and buy up all that come your way

They´re worth their weight in gold sir