Land Clearing + 

The first winter which I did spend + 

In Canada was with a friend, + 

And when the snow had passed away + 

Quite early in the month of May. + 

Friend started off for a barn raising, + 

And told me to get stumps ablazing, + 

Around each stump I heaped a pile + 

Of roots and junks of wood so vile. + 

For he wished the field to clear + 

So it a crop of wheat would rear, + 

And there was one high withered pine + 

Which was full of turpentine. + 

As soon as I applied the torch, + 

Blaze quick did start and it did scorch + 

The fences, and the woods were nigh, + 

For the old tree it blazed on high. + 

I was the only man or boy + 

Near there that day and found employ + 

In saving of the house and barn, + 

Thus early fire fiend did me warn. + 

Fire started and with it a breeze + 

Carried the sparks ’mong leaves of trees, + 

I did work hard but for recompense + 

All was saved but a few rails of fence. + 

Man in spring logging oft awakes + 

From winter slumbers nests of snakes, + 

And listens to the music grand + 

Of bull frogs, our Canadian band. + 