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Beechwood fires burn bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year
Chestnut's only good they say
If four years it's stored away
Birch and firwood burn too fast
Blaze too bright and don't last
But Ashwood green and Ashwood brown
Are fit for a queen with golden crown
Oaken logs if dry and old
Keep away the winters cold
Poplar gives a bitter smoke
Fills your eyes and makes you choke
Elmwood burns like churchyard mould
Even the very flames are cold
Apple wood will scent the room
Pearwood smells like the flowers in bloom
But Ash wood wet and Ash wood dry
A king may warm his slippers by
Taken from The Tree Book by J.
Edward Milner
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The Woodcutters Song
Oak logs will warm you well
That are old and dry
Logs of pine will sweetly smell
But the sparks will fly
Birch logs will burn too fast
Chestnut scarce at all sir
Hawthorn logs are good to last
That are cut well in the fall sir
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
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
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