Setting the Woods on Fire - Hank Williams

Settin' the Woods on Fire

 

Written by: Ed Nelson, Fred Rose

Setting the Woods on Fire Lyrics

Comb your hair and paint and powder
You act proud and I'll act prouder
You sing loud and I'll sing louder
Tonight we're settin' the woods on fire

You're my gal and I'm your feller
Dress up in your frock of yeller
I'll look swell but you'll look sweller
Settin' the woods on fire

We'll take in all the honky tonks
Tonight we're having fun
We'll show the folks a brand new dance
That never has been done

I don't care who thinks we're silly
You'll be daffy I'll be dilly
We'll order up two bowls of chili
Settin' the woods on fire

I'll gas up my hot rod stoker
We'll get hotter than a poker
You'll be broke but I'll be broker
Tonight we're settin' the woods on fire

We'll sit close to one another
Up one street and down the other
We'll have a time, oh brother
Settin' the woods on fire

We'll put aside a little time
To fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doin' fine
But the air is showin' through

You clap hands and I'll start bowin'
We'll do all the law's allowin'
Tomorrow I'll be right back plowin
Settin' the woods on fire

Setting the Woods on Fire Singers

1. Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys June 13, 1952

2. Porter Wagoner October 3, 1952 3. Melvin Shiner and Grady Martin and His Slew Foot Five October 1952 4. Johnny Burnette November 1959 5. Johnny Rebb and His Rebels February 1960 6. George Jones May 1960 7. Don Gibson June 1962 8. Connie Stevens 1962 9. Hank Williams, Jr. and Lois Johnson September 1970 10. Jerry Lee Lewis October 1971 11. Little Richard October 1971 12. Mason Proffit 1973 13. Mary Kay Place September 17, 1976 14. Memphis Bend 1977 15. Vernon Oxford 1978 16. Hank Edwards 1987 17. Guy Mitchell and The Wild Bunch 1990 18. Katy Moffatt 1990 19. The Tractors 1994 20. The Flatlanders June 29, 2004 21. Tor 2004 22. Clelia Adams 2005 23. Blazing Sevens 2006 24. Patrick Norman [1] February 9, 2010 25. Heartbeat 2010 26. Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys February 28, 2012 27. B 5-49 November 2015.

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