The Redwood Blues
Tune: Mournin’ Blues, by Uncle Dave Macon

After agreeing to a moratorium on logging in Jackson State Forest, Calfire is allowing the logging companies back in. Activists traveled to Sacramento; six of them were arrested this week. (On purpose. "What's a person got to do to get arrested around here?" asked Anna Marie Stenberg after one 4 am anti-logging action in the Forest

I wrote:


Woke up this morning, pain in my head
Wished I could crawl right back in bed
Pain in my back, pain in my knees
But I’m still gonna go and protect them trees.
        I got the redwood blues oh so bad
        Honey come an' hug me, they’re the worst I've ever had.

I wanna take a walk, I wanna take a hike
Wanna take a ride on my ‘lectric bike
But I’m gonna sit here beneath this tree,
And read a three-hundred-page THP.
                Timber Harvest Plan. But I can’t
                Understand how you can harvest something you didn’t plant.
                How can you harvest something you didn’t plant?

Buzz of a chainsaw gives me a chill,
Another truckload of trees headin’ to the mill.
Staring at stumps, me an' my friends
Is this the way the legend of the redwood ends?

        I got the redwood blues, oh so bad
        Honey come an' hug me, they’re the worst I've ever had
        Honey come an' kiss me, they’re the worst I've ever had
        Honey come an'…..