The Wild Atlantic Cabaret - Any Oaks? Lyrics

Let me tell you about Ash trees
20k cut a year just for hurleys
FF like my rhymes
They be acting tight
Made a rash decision with zero foresight
Importing trees from across the seas
Bringing Ash to their knees
Now they're all diseased
Why you mad FF
We just spitting facts
Coz of you being cheap
Brought in Ash dieback
Scots pine she's fine
Tall and majestic oh yeah she's Celtic
A forest can start anew
All we need is a spade, some seeds and Yew
Hawthorn she's a witches tree
Full of magic healing and mystery
In the middle of the field she stands alone
No one dares cut her down coz they'll turn to stone
Any Oaks Any Oaks Any any Oaks
Any Oaks Any Oaks Any any Oaks
3% native trees that's a travesty
That statement should be a-blasphemy
Send in the cavalry and plant some trees
So the next generation can breathe
Willow can you go.. 3 percent
Willow can you go.. 3 percent
Now the IFA won't let me be
Let me be me so let me see
They tried to shut me down
While planting trees
But the worlds so empty without trees
What's up Coillte
We're sick of ya
Planting non-native trees like Sitka
Tonnes of glyphosate
Killing good bacteria
You're not a fungi
You're diphtheria
Blackthorn she's the mother of the woods
Strapped with thorns and spikes to protect her goods
Are you sloe Her berries flavour your gin
Think of that next time you be drinkin
Her branch her sap
She's pussy or she's crack
She's Willlow Use me for biomass
Coppice me like and Alder tree
Why not plant trees I asked the women
Let's plant trees
And the women said, we would plant trees but we don't know how
And that started the whole story of let's learn how to plant
And we called the Foresters because to plant a tree you need a diploma
I said what
I don't think you need a diploma to plant a tree
Birch It's cold in here
There must be Co2 in the atmosphere
Are you nuts? Plant Hazel
She's edible and incredible
Moo Beech get out the way get out the way Beech get out the way
Grow your bush it's Gorse of course
Grow your bush it's Gorse of course
Any Oaks Any Oaks Any any Oaks
Any Oaks Any Oaks Any any Oaks
3% native trees that's a travesty
That statement should be a-blasphemy
Send in the cavalry and plant some trees
So the next generation can breed
Willow can you go 3 percent
Willow can you go 3 percent
Rolling with my Rowan
You can find me in the Burren
Any Oaks Ehhh
Any Oaks Ehhh
3 percent it's a travesty
The EU average is much more than that