Little Redwood
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[BECCA] In the ancient past, two thousand years or more A little redwood seed falls to the forest floor While native tribes flourish nearby and thousands of eagles rule the sky A year passes by And that little seed now stands eighteen inches high And years speed on past, the little tree has grown As across the world decrees were made, then carved in Rosetta Stone While in the East, stones are laid by hand to build the Great Wall across the land The little rеdwood stands And when each year's complеte, it's grown four or five feet Human history's growing pains Never shake the little redwood's strength Through thousands of years and billions of lives The little redwood still survives So, honor the giants, bow down in silence Two hundred years pass, the tree grows in size As a child is born in Bethlehem and a Roman Empire dies There's a Magna Carta and a Children's Crusade while the world fights over how borders are made The little redwood grows A thousand years fly by, that tree's two hundred feet high Invaders bring noise, they kill and destroy Themselves and the trees with violent machines There's Civil Wars and Cold Wars, and men invade the redwood's shores All for timber, all for greed, while the redwoods watch in disbelief Human history's growing pains Never shake the little redwood's strength Through thousands of years and billions of lives The little redwood survives and thrives And still today, continues to rise For years to come, after we're gone The redwoods will carry on So, honor the giants Bow down in silence
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Credits
- Writers
- Kate Diaz
- Tina Landau