Setting the woods on fire the right way

Y’all may not be old enough to remember it but
I still do. Hank Williams had a bunch of hits back
in the day as his twangy voice sang all sorts of sad
love songs, such as ‘I’m so Lonesome I could cry”,
“Lovesick Blues”, “Mansion on the Hill”. But he
had one that was a jumpy little ditty about
taking his girl friend out for a date where
they’d be, in the title of the song, “Settin
the woods on fire.”
I saw on the news last week about a
wildfire in New Jersey where a young man
was arrested for doing just that to the forests
in his state. He was guilty of “setting
the woods on fire”, and I don’t think it was
the same sort of fire that old Hank was
singing about.

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