The Names of Trees-Carolyn Hester

[00:00.000] 作词 : Tom Paxton [00:01.000] 作曲 : Tom Paxton [00:05.60] [00:09.10]He’s forgotten the names of trees [00:14.20]Familiar faces have no names [00:18.60]He’s returned from alien seas [00:23.70]To find our father’s house in flames [00:31.10] [00:32.70]He tries to read the signs [00:36.40]But they’re in unfamiliar tongues [00:41.30]Some half-remembered lines [00:46.30]He read when he was young [00:51.90] [00:53.00]But there are days when he recalls [00:58.70]The forest in the fall [01:02.80]When we can walk together, and he’s fine [01:12.10]There are precious days like that [01:17.80]When he can name them all [01:22.00]The ash, the elm, the beech, the oak, the pine [01:31.60] [01:40.60]He’s forgotten the names of trees [01:45.70]His thoughts are like the chattering birds [01:50.30]They travel as they please [01:55.20]And build their nests of scattered words [02:01.90] [02:04.00]The children stop and smile [02:08.20]They offer him their candy bar [02:13.10]They sometimes stay a while [02:17.70]And remind him of who they are [02:23.50] [02:24.20]But there are days when he recalls [02:30.30]The forest in the fall [02:34.40]When we can walk together, and he’s fine [02:43.80]There are precious days like that [02:49.30]When he can name them all [02:53.50]The ash, the elm, the beech, the oak, the pine [03:03.50] [03:12.10]He’s forgotten the names of trees [03:17.20]He smells the land to his surprise [03:22.00]He’s lost in the Hebrides [03:26.80]A stranger to our sunny skies [03:34.70]He’s forgotten the names of trees...