Terry Allen wrote a nice song on this same theme.
It was on his 1976 album "Juarez."

I feel just like a dogwood tree.
Somebody come and carved a cross out of me.
And they carried me down to Jerusalem.
And the people there gimme to the carpenter's son.

Yeah, they carried my weight up Golgotha plain.
And the sky turned black, Lord. It started to rain.
And the (police?), with their hammers, drove his white hands in me.
And made him a part of a dogwood tree.

Now he may be gone far away from here.
And the sun may shine bright, Lord. The sky might be clear.
But the iron that they used, to nail him to me,
lingers dark in the bark of a dogwood tree.

The melody starts out similar to the chorus of "The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea."