UP IN THESE REDWOOD TREES

At U.C. Santa Cruz last year, a group of adorable, courageous, hardy tree-huggers scaled up to the high branches of several redwood trees in a grove near a science building. The U. wanted to build a lab there, although there are many other places on that huge campus where trees wouldn’t have had to be removed. The kids stayed up there for over nine months, people brought them food and drink and t.p. and other necessities, and the RGs went to sing to them several times. We’d send up the songs and they sang along with us, although we could barely see them. It was rare, Granny songs coming down out of those stalwart, beautiful trees. Sadly, the bulldozers finally came, and the heroes (of both sexes) had to come down, and now the trees are gone.

WE”LL STAY UP IN THESE REDWOOD TREES
(Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree)

We’ll sit up in these redwood trees
Close to the birds and skies
Until they realize, and
Hear our anguished cries–Yeah, yeah, yeah
We’ll sit up in these redwood trees
Our friends will send supplies!
To keep these trees alive.

Now UC says they must expand–
And cut down every tree
It’s progress, don’t you see?
But I just don’t agree–Yeah, yeah, yeah
UC says they must exand
I guess it’s up to me
To keep these trees alive!

Nature’s crying out to us–
She needs her forest scenes;
For global warming’s coming fast
If we don’t protect our greens!

Sooo–We’ll stay up in these redwood trees
Just as long as it takes!
They can scare us with snakes
They can burn us at stakes–Yeah, yeah, yeah,
We’ll stay up in these redwood trees
Just as long as it takes
To keep these trees alive!

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