Fire, Burn Bright

"This sprightly piece celebrates something we all love on a cold winter's day: the crackling logs in the fireplace. A traditional folk poem from the English West Country provided the text. A colorful piano accompaniment adds great interest to the clever melodic realization of the text as it describes the various kinds of logs and how they react when lit. " - Santa Barbara Music Publishing website

Item	Voicing	Duration
SBMP 988	SSAA	4:45	Audio file		$1.95 Purchase at SBMP

Women & Trebles

Difficulty

Moderate

Fire, Burn Bright

Traditional, British Isles

Oaken logs will warm you well,
 that are old and dry;
 Logs of pine will sweetly smell,
 but the sparks will fly.
 Birch logs will bum too fast;
 chestnut, scarce at all.
 Hawthorn logs are good to last,
 cut them in the fall.

 Refrain:
 Fire burn bright,
 long into the night,
 Fire burn warm
 keep away the damp and chill 'til morn.

 Holly logs will burn like wax,
 you may burn them green;
 Elm logs, like to smouldering flax,
 no flame to be seen.
 Beech logs for the winter-time,
 Yew logs as well.
 Green alder logs it is a crime
 for any man to sell. [Refrain]

 Pear logs and apple logs,
 they will scent your room.
 Cherry logs across the dogs
 smell like flowers of broom.
 Ash logs, smooth and grey,
 burn them green or old;
 Buy up all that come your way, worth their weight in gold. [Refrain]