Tree

from Lifetime
Melody Only
by David Haines
MELODY
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der - ground with the moles and the worms
 Un -

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Push - ing down and a - round through the dark earth -
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   
      
White roots wind - ing their twist - ing way
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           
seek - ing food and wa - ter from the soil and clay
         
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 
Trunk reach - ing in - to the air
   
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         
Leaf - y branch - es spread - ing un - der blue sky where
            
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
sun shines bring - ing warmth and light to the tree
 20
       
bring - ing the light of life
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       
Bring - ing the light of life....

  EARTH
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Ev' - ry cu - bic me - tre of the

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 soil
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is a world a - live

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with a mil - li - on ti - ny plants

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  
 with a mil - li - on crea - tures who sur -

    
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      
 vive for a few brief days then die and de -

             
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  cay
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
in

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- to the food for the next ge - ner - a - tion

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 Their lives though hid - den from our

             
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  view, in the cy - cle of life play a part of va - lue

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re - ple - ni - shing the earth with es - sen - tial foods

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dig - ging chan - nels in the

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 soil,
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let - ting air and wa - ter

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 through,
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Dig - ging chan - nels in the

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soil, let - ting air and wa - ter through...
  AIR
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            
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All through the night, all through the day the tree breathes

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  ab - sor - bing air through the pores in its leaves

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  at night it ma - nu - fac - tures su - gars for its food then

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    
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du - ring the day gives off ox - y - gen These trees

             
and plants ev' - ry - where give out the vi - tal gas we
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  
a - ni - mals
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need in our air Car - bon - di - o - xide

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that we can - not breathe is bro - ken down by the

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 trees
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in - to the ox - y - gen we

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 need
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is bro - ken down by the

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trees in - to the ox - y - gen we need...
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
         
der - ground with the moles and the worms
 Un
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-

            
Push - ing down and a - round through the dark earth -
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   
      
White roots wind - ing their twist - ing way
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           
seek - ing food and wa - ter from the soil and clay
         
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 
Trunk reach - ing in - to the air
  
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 
        
Leaf - y branch - es spread - ing un - der blue sky where
            
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
sun shines bring - ing warmth and light to the tree
 80
       
bring - ing the light of life

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  
  FIRE Bring - ing the light of life....

 
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         
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The fu - sion fire of the sun burns bright

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  ba - thing
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the earth in the e - ner

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- gy of heat and light

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Our pla - net's til - ted or - bit

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a - round the sun

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- brings

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 the cy - cle of the sea - sons,

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      
  sum - mer,
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au - tumn, win - ter, spring

       
With green chlo - ro - phyll

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the trees u - ti - lise the

    
ra - di - a - tion of the

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   
sun
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to pho - to - syn - the - sise the food for life

          
that we need, one and all, car - bo - hy - drates
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 made
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from wa - ter, air and mi - ner - als, car - bo - hy - drates

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made from wa - ter, air and mi - ner - als...

 WATER
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    
In the heat of sum - mer when the sun glares down

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     
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the roots ab - sorb wa - ter from

     
be - low the ground

        
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os - mo - sis draws the wa - ter up to the leaves where e -

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 va - por - a - tion from the sur - face cools down the tree

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 Rain - wa - ter dis - solves from the

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           
 earth all the nu - tri - ents

 
the plant

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will re - quire from its

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 
birth
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as a seed to a full grown tree

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 
Wa - ter
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does for trees what my blood does for - me

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Wa - ter does for trees what my blood does for - - me...
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
          
Un - der - ground with the moles and the worms
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            
Push - ing down and a - round through the dark earth -
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   
      
White roots wind - ing their twist - ing way
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           
seek - ing food and wa - ter from the soil and clay
  

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       
Trunk reach - ing in - to the air
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   
       
Leaf - y branch - es spread - ing un - der blue sky where

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           
sun shines bring - ing warmth and light to the tree
  140
       
bring - ing the light of life
  142
       
Bring - ing the light of life....
  144
       
bring - ing the light of life
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        
Bring - ing the light of life....

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