Lakehead University Forestry Association - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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MULTIPLE USE Whose forests are these anyway For work, for study or play? Are they leasea to the Yanks For pulpwood and planks? Do Canadians have any say? That was a No-No one Sing us another one Not like the other one Sing us another one do-o When our timber resources are cut Or prices are squeezed in a glut We think of excuses For multiple uses To pull Canada out of a rut CHORUS: Hey-Ho for multiple use Give us another use Just like the other use Give us another use do-o. Cottage lot sales divide up the shore Into 50 foot plots by the score Now you need a sewer To keep the lake pure Or you ' ll poison the owner next door CHORUS: On a portage crossing a truck route A canoeist stopped to play on his flute With a God awful thud He was crushed in the mud And only the truck gave a toot CHORUS: Tourists called the Ranger a liar After lighting an illegal fire Which caused forest arson Burned up the parson And roasted the Sunday school choir CHORUS: A fabulous axeman called Paul Highgraded the trees that were tall When asked for an excuse He said multiple use Prevented him cutting them all. CHORUS: An ecologist studied a thrush And was killed when Bob Day sprayed the brush It had been his plan To enact a spray ban So the thrush and the brush could be lush. CHORUS: An R.P.F. had to quit Signing multi-use plans that don ' t fit But to cut be selection And build an erection In a wilderness zone takes a wit Lakehead U ' s class of F. ' 73 Were songfesting beneath a dead tree When from the inside A Woodpecker cried R.P.F. ' s ate no damn good to me. Hey-Ho for multiple use Don ' t do another one Just like the other one Don ' t do another one Don ' t. Professor Day ' s songs