Big Tree

1987 annA rydeR© Copyright Control
Guitar dropped D capo 3 (F)

Big tree with your feathery arms
So tall so wide
Forever green waving branches
So old, you were mine
Running around your waist and sitting in your arms
I knew your every crack and I knew your every scar
Swinging on your boughs and lying on your ground
I knew your every move and I listened to your every sound

BUT WHERE, O WHERE, WHERE ARE YOU, WHERE ARE YOU NOW
WHERE, O WHERE, WHERE ARE YOU, WHERE ARE YOU NOW

I’d tell you all my secrets, I’d tell you all the things on my mind
I felt that you were listening, seeing, breathing and alive
And when I was sad and all alone
You were always the first to know I felt like leaving home
And I liked to think that you were listening to me
Even though you were only a tree
You were more than just a tree to me

BUT WHERE …

In the summer I’d lie in your shade
Looking at the clouds
In the autumn when the sun began to fade
There’d be pine needles all over your ground
A hundred years old and a hundred years tall
You never looked to me like you could ever fall
And I felt that you heard every word that I said
It wasn’t just something I’d made up in my head, oh no

BUT WHERE …

And in the winter when a chill was in the air
Snow on your boughs and cold everywhere
You’d still be there
And in the spring the forest would ring
And I felt like singing of the life you were bringing

BUT WHERE ….

Recording: Track 10 What’s Afoot