歌曲名 The Names Of Trees

歌手名 Carolyn Hester

作曲：Susan White/Tom Paxton

He s forgotten the names of trees

Familiar faces have no names

He s returned from alien seas

To find our father s house in flames

He tries to read the signs

But they re in unfamiliar tongues

Some half-remembered lines

He read when he was young

But there are days when he recalls

The forest in the fall

When we can walk together and he s fine

There are precious days like that

When he can name them all

The ash the elm the beech the oak the pine

He s forgotten the names of trees

His thoughts are like the chattering birds

They travel as they please

And build their nests of scattered words

The children stop and smile

They offer him their candy bar

They sometimes stay a while

And remind him of who they are

But there are days when he recalls

The forest in the fall

When we can walk together and he s fine

There are precious days like that

When he can name them all

The ash the elm the beech the oak the pine

He s forgotten the names of trees

He smells the land to his surprise

He s lost in the Hebrides

A stranger to our sunny skies

He s forgotten the names of trees