Post a song that refers to a forest, jungle or woods

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Jethro Tull comes to mind right away:

That takes care of the jungle and the woods. Now let's turn our attention to the forest.

From 1977 comes this song by Todd Rundgren's Utopia. I bought the album when it came out.

Those Bearsville pressings were just wonderful - with one exception. The last stage of quality control at Bearsville consisted of spraying the surface of the record with Elmer's Glue-All. Once you removed that, you were in for a wonderful sonic treat. They way to get the glue spray out of the grooves was to run your turntable in reverse and play the record backward. No kidding. An AR turntable can be coaxed into doing this. Well, I know that the single-motor ones from the 1960s can do this. The others, I cannot say.

The stylus would flick the spray particles from the groove as the record rotated counterclockwise. This wouldn't work in the clockwise direction, as the stylus would just jump over the spray without removing it.

I'm not making this up. I did this to several bad spots on several Bearsville records. I never damaged either a stylus or a record.

Anyway, this is just astonishing on a hifi system. No mp3 file can do this justice.

Here's the album: Ra (Utopia album)

The lyrics: Singring & The Glass Guitar Lyrics

Only one has the courage to make his way into the forest of flames and brave
The fire-breathing dragon in search of the third key.