looking for tree songs for radio show

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 14 May 05 - 08:13 PM

Of trees and humankind

sorry, blicky is not working while the cat's down, but here is a link to hear it sung by the Solidarity Choir of Australia -

http://www.geocities.com/solidaritychoir/

best wishes

freda

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 14 May 05 - 07:38 PM

Another Oak and the Ash and the bonny rowan tree.

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 05 - 07:20 PM

John Gorka's "Branching Out" :
(When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Tree
I wanna make my home with the birds and the bees
An' the squirrels - they can count on me
When I grow up to be a tree ...)

Cheers!
Rich-Joy

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 May 05 - 06:07 PM

Oh Rowan Tree

can be heard at www.contemplator.com

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 05 - 05:18 PM

Willow Tree, Chris Whil/Julie Matthews
My Love's an Arbutus ('Strawberry Tree')
What's the Life of a Man any more than a Leaf

I have the music for Joyce Kilmer's song @Trees': written by Oscar Rasbach it's as beautiful as the words.

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 May 05 - 04:22 PM

Linden Lea here
The Ash Grove

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,Sooz (via the back door)
Date: 14 May 05 - 03:07 PM

One from each side of the pond:
Rik Palieri - Plant a tree
Vin Garbutt - The Black Poplar (written and recorded to raise funds for conservation of this very rare British tree)

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Bert
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:19 AM

My Dad used to sing this. I don't know where he got it from.

The oojah tree, the oohjah tree
the finest tree you ever did see
last July it grew so high
it poked a hole in the bright blue sky
and sailors say when around that way
from two 'till half past three
that on it's branches big and strong
prehistoric animals go shuffling along
as they keep on climbing, climbing, climbing
up the oohjah tree.

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:01 AM

I seem to remember a country western song from the late 1940's called "Timber!" which might be right on target.

Malvina Reynolds composed a song in honor of the "Lambert Children" who defended a tree threatened by highway construction by climbing up in its branches.

There are hundreds of traditional songs from the lumberjack era.

I composed a "Treehouse Song" (should be in the threads) featuring a neighbor who didn't appreciate the architectual jewel constructed next door for a 10-year old kid; the kid won.

I'll check this thread later in the day if there is any interest in follow-up.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 14 May 05 - 06:39 AM

The oak and the ash and the bonny rowan-tree
They're all a growing green in the old country
And it's home, boys, home
Home I'd like to be, home for a while in the old country
Where the oak and the ash and the bonny rowan tree
They're all a-growing green in the old country...

and

The holly bears a berry, as blood it is red

and

Down by the sally gardens, my love and I did meet

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Fiona
Date: 14 May 05 - 06:36 AM

There's a beautiful one on Dick Gaughans Outlaws & Dreamers album, The Yew Tree (Brian McNeill).

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Jos
Date: 14 May 05 - 05:03 AM

Lemon Tree was also recorded in the early 60s by Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde.
Their website is on

http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/front.htm

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Alan Day
Date: 14 May 05 - 04:48 AM

Lovely Poem Joyce
Thanks
Al

Subject: Lyr Add: TREES (Joyce Kilmer, Oscar Rasbach)
From: open mike
Date: 14 May 05 - 04:09 AM

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

    - Joyce Kilmer

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Rasener
Date: 14 May 05 - 04:07 AM

Lemon Tree - I think I remember that by Peter Paul and Mary and did Trini Lopez do it.

Subject: RE: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 14 May 05 - 03:55 AM

A Tree Song

Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn
Greater are none beneath the sun than Oak and Ash and Thorn

A great song, but not a folk song. Words by Kipling, tune from Peter Bellamy.

Subject: looking for tree songs for radio show
From: open mike
Date: 14 May 05 - 03:52 AM

I am planning a radio special focussing on tree songs
(and poems, and stories) I looked in the D.T. and got
some good ones, but just wondered if any one knew of
any folk-y songs that feature trees. one just popped
into my head: Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the old oak..
but i was thinking of others...esp. ones that show the
oak bending and breaking and the willow or grass bends
and stays flexible. also are there any that have a palm
tree or a tropical type of setting?

thanks for any suggestions..