Your Local Pirates - Timber!
Channel: Your Local Pirates
Date: 2018-11-24

recorded by Kees Visser at Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam, November 10, 2018

lyrics*:

Timber!

The saw handled ever so carefully
This lumberjack does the good work at night
When men with guns are still asleep
The forest waiting for the light

Timber! And it is no tree
A hunting tower is going down
Timber!
And the good news is going ‘round

Quietly cutting down one after another
This lumberjack does the good work at night
Wild boar and deer between the trees
The forest waiting for the light

Timber! And it is no tree
A hunting tower is going down
Timber!
And the good news is going ‘round

Another job well done I’d say
This lumberjack did the good work at night
Not one shot fired the next day
That hunting tower didn’t see the light

Timber! No, it is no tree
Another night – another tower’s down
Timber!
And the good news is going ‘round

*voor Nederlandstaligen: Timber betekent zoiets als 'van onderen!', geroepen door houthakkers wanneer er een boom neergaat. In deze tekst gaat het niet over bomen. :-)

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