Thank you Guru, very sweet of you to say such nice things.
The song is written about the horrors of war from a tree's perspective really.

BATTLEFIELD TREE
(Lucy Burrows)

I'm the tree on the battlefield, a pitiful sight
I stand and watch bullets fly to left and to right
I'm the tree that's seen blood flow from every man's heart,
I'm the tree in the battlefield, Half blown apart.

Its many long years I've stood firm in this soil
Watched centuries farmers, long time they did toil
Well there used to be ten of us handsome and tall
And I've stood and I've wept as each brother did fall.

In no man's land, sadly, my fate is to be
'Twixt the lines on Old England and High Germany
Each brother in arms as he fights for the cause
Thinks he'll vanquish the foe in the war to end wars

A fine English soldier, with valiant heart
Lay low 'neath my branches, his mates blown apart
I could feel in his hands, how he'd tended with care
Of the soil in a fine English garden somewhere.

In a moment of dreaming, as the gaff, it raged high,
Together, we went to that place, him and I....
And once more in the sunshine and heat of the day,
He tended bright flowers, he brought in the hay

Then a shell shook the earth, back in Flanders we lay
It had taken his leg and my branches away
We stood broken together, together we fell.....
Him and me on that battlefield, half blown to hell.

I'm the tree on the battlefield, a pitiful sight
I stand and watch bullets fly to left and to right
I'm the tree that's seen blood flow from every man's heart,
I'm the tree in the battlefield, Half blown apart.

I have it on the CD of the show if anyone needs the tune to go with it.

May I also say that Jon Heslop's song, Lament for The Oaks, sung by Helygen (Kathy Wallis), in the show 'Unsung Heroes', is another fine tree song telling the story of the Heligan Oaks, once the garden's windbreak from the sea air, taken by the war office for shipbuilding in WWI, as told by the spirit of the garden.

Mother Earth, the poem at the start of the show, also has a tune and can be sung. This has lots of references to trees......"Tall oaks and Ash and Willow, Elder, Chestnut and The Thorn, These my brothers and my sisters, and Ive seen each one being born" etc.

Chers, Lucy