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Wood for Burning

from Live at the Glad Cafe by Neil Thomson

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Traditional poem celebrating different types of wood and how they perform in the fire.

lyrics

Wood for Burning

Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year; 

Store your beech for Christmastide 

With new-cut holly laid beside; 


Chestnut's only good, they say, 

If for years 'tis stored away; 

Birch and fir-wood burn too fast 

Blaze too bright and do not last; 


Flames from larch will shoot up high, 

Dangerously the sparks will fly; 

But ash-wood green and ash-wood brown 

Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown. 



Oaken logs, if dry and old, 

Keep away the winter's cold; 

Poplar gives a bitter smoke, 

Fills your eyes and makes you choke; 


Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,

E'en the very flames are cold; 

It is by the Irish said; 

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread, 


Apple-wood will scent the room, 

Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom; 

But ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry 

A King may warm his slippers by. 



credits

from Live at the Glad Cafe, released June 22, 2017
Fiddle - Jenny Sutherland
Guitar - John McGhee

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Neil Thomson Crieff, UK

Neil's writing is mainly but not solely inspired by his native Scotland. It's roots, people, tradition and natural environment
provide inspiration for creating music in his own relaxed, gentle style.

He enjoys setting his music to traditional poems sung in Old Scots and in particular the poetry of Gerry Cambridge.
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