Hi, Clockwork. The song is called "There Ain't No Ash Will Burn". (It's "burns just like West Virginia coal", by the way, not birds!) If you click here, it will take you to a thread from last year that has what I think are all the words to the song, and possibly the names of the authors. I hope that helps. It's a beautiful song. If you need more info, you might try a search on Google.

Welcome to the Mudcat! I hope you'll join and keep coming back. This song is not in the Digital Tradition, but with luck it will be in the next edition. I'll send a message to the harvesters to that effect....it's hard for them to pick up on songs that show up on threads without a "LyrAdd" flag.

Aloha,
Mark