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30 Nov 06 - 11:03 PM (#1897156) Subject: Lyr Add: BRISTLECONE PINE (Hugh Prestwood) From: GUEST,riverboat annie Bryan Bowers does this on his new CD, called "Bristlecone Pine." bristlecone pine (Hugh Prestwood) Way up in the mountains on the high timber line There's a twisted old tree called the Bristlecone Pine The wind there is bitter, it cuts like a knife And it keeps that tree holding on for dear life But hold on it does, standing its ground Standing as empires rise and fall down When Jesus was gathering lambs to his fold The tree was already a thousand years old Now the way I have lived there ain't no way to tell When I die if I'm going to heaven or hell So when I'm laid to rest it would suit me just fine To sleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine For as I would slowly return to the earth What little this body of mine might be worth Would soon start to nourish the roots of that tree And it would partake of the essence of me And who knows but that as the centuries turn A small spark of me might continue to burn As long as the sun did continue to shine Down on the limbs of the Bristlecone Pine Now the way I have lived there ain't no way to tell When I die if I'm going to heaven or hell So I'd just as soon serve out eternity's time Asleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine Asleep at the feet of the Bristlecone Pine |
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01 Dec 06 - 03:32 AM (#1897237) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine From: Joe Offer A couple of summers ago, we took a hike in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains above Bishop, California. The White Mountains are east of the Sierra Nevada, and provide a spectacular view of the Sierra. It's an amazing thing to be walking amid trees that are 4,700 years old. Thanks for the song, Annie. -Joe- |
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01 Dec 06 - 09:02 AM (#1897405) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: MMario we have a bristlecone pine in our garden - only about 20 years old. It's amazing to consider the age of some of those trees... |
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01 Dec 06 - 11:45 AM (#1897549) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: open mike I have sung this song for years! The Oldest living things on earth are amazing to see. They grow in the Great Basin National Park in Nevada and are found above 10,000 to 12,000 feet elevation. http://www.nps.gov/grba/ and in the white mountains. see: http://sonic.net/bristlecone/ I really appreciate Hugh Prestwood for writing such a wonderful song. Check out his web site: http://www.hughprestwood.com/ here is a NOVA PBS special on the http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/ Methuselah Tree. there is a 10 minute video clip. unfortunately i heard that someone who drilled a core sample from one of these trees to count the rings caused the death of a tree which had lived for nearly 5,000 years. gone. just like that. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/bristlecone_pine.htm huh? |
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01 Dec 06 - 11:55 AM (#1897559) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: MMario Hard to believe unless he severed a strip of bark that was the only connection between trunk and roots. Most of a tree isn't "alive" as such |
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11 Oct 09 - 03:09 PM (#2743622) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: Dan Schatz Harry Tuft sang this at Sandy Paton's memorial. I'd never heard this song before and now I want to learn it. And to see a Bristlecone Pine. Then I check out this thread and discover that Bryan recorded it. Figures - he's always finding good songs and getting to them before I can get my greedy autoharpist's hands on them. I' guess I'll just have to play it on guitar.... Dan |
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11 Oct 09 - 11:20 PM (#2743884) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: semi-submersible The first researcher to study the age of bristlecone pines did it, in ignorance. He didn't have any dendrochronology (tree ring dating science) data yet; just a suspicion that some of these trees might be pretty old. He didn't have any research budget either, to speak of, nor a borer to take core samples. So one day he went to a nearby glacial moraine, a good place for such trees to live undisturbed for a long time, and took tree ring samples off the first sizable tree he came to...with a chainsaw, the tool he had. Then he took the rounds back to the lab and started to count rings. Not hundreds, not a thousand, but thousands. Two score and seven centuries gazing back at him through the magnifying glass. Suddenly, with evidence that there were such extraordinarily old trees in their backyard, the powers that be granted him equipment (such as borers to take core samples respectfully) and assistants aplenty, and they started testing for more old trees. Guess what? None were anywhere near as old as the first one the researcher had found. The one he had killed... |
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11 Oct 09 - 11:30 PM (#2743891) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: Michael Harrison Jim Salestrom of Colorado has done a wonderful version of this song for several years; fine song it is. Cheers,................mwh |
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13 Oct 09 - 10:54 PM (#2745450) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: GUEST,Merhlin I have made a video (slide-show) of the Bristlecone Pine song. Does anyone here know how to contact Hugh? His MySpace email won't accept emails. (It says he's away.) I have a phone number and will use it if I can't get an email address. Thanks |
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12 Jul 20 - 05:39 PM (#4063910) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: Joe Offer Here's a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gTu18pgDwY |
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13 Jul 20 - 02:27 AM (#4063963) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: GUEST,threelegsoman The Bristlecone Pine was one of my earliest uploads to YouTube. Like Bryan Bowers, I used my autoharp for accompaniment, though the one I was using at that time was an old Chromaharp. The Bristlecone Pine (Including lyrics and chords) |
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11 Oct 20 - 06:22 PM (#4075167) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: Joe Offer Do we know anything about Hugh Prestwood? It's such an intriguing song, but I know nothing about the writer. |
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11 Oct 20 - 07:21 PM (#4075175) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bristlecone Pine (Hugh Prestwood) From: GUEST Prestwood bio at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Prestwood |