New Metters Wood Stove: A. Mann / Traditional

This song with words from Alan Man put to a traditional blues pattern, is based on a true story from Tom Brittain about a timber cutter who decided to install a new stove in his dirt-floored hut.  When the stove arrived at the local siding he had only one option to help him get it home – his back!

New Metters Wood Stove

Got me a new Metters Wood Stove, green number two with sliding doors

Yeah a new Metters Wood Stove, green number two with sliding doors  

Got it on my back, from the siding to my little hut’s dirt floor

I heard a whistle at the siding, and the rattler's near on time

Yeah there's the whistle at the siding, and the rattler's there on time

The box from Subiaco, big square and heavy, now its mine

I fitted a shiny chimney flue, in just a quarter of an hour

Yeah fitted a shiny chimney flue, in just a quarter of an hour

Mill-ends are alight, ain’t nothing like good ol’ wood power

Now the kettle's quietly singin’, and my supper’s in the pan

Yeah the kettle's quietly singin’, and my supper’s in the pan

King Brown in my hand, bacon and eggs are nearly done

I’ll get up early in the morning, and I'll hang a piece of twine

For dirty socks and washin’, and I’ll string ‘em in a line

Across my new Metters Wood Stove, green number two with sliding doors

Got it on my back, from the siding to my little hut’s dirt floor

Damper’s closed, coals are glowing, and the oven door is down

Damper’s closed, coals are glowing, and the oven door is down

Cradle for my heels, soles of my boots are getting warm