An English Folk Song....lyrics Dawn Sinclair....music composed and performed by Mark Ellis....I love this one Mark!!
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Story behind the song
Someone asked me a year or two ago to weave a lyric around a story idea he had...I did so and this is it, but he never used the lyric and I have so wanted it to be used because of the message it contains....Mark stepped up to the plate....
Lyrics
Mighty Oak
lyric by Dawn Sinclair
music Mark Ellis
Young soldier planted the acorn
when he returned from the war
time sprouted wings and the little seed
came to be much more
As back to the Earth a man soul goes
So the mighty oak from an acorn grows
Oak tree stood so proudly,
spread its arms to the sky
And watching from his window
It filled the young boy's eye
As back to the Earth a man soul goes
So the mighty oak from an acorn grows
A home for hoarding squirrels
A place for hide and seek
Goal post or a cricket stump
but not for the boy grown weak
As back to the Earth a man soul goes
So the mighty oak from an acorn grows
And when the golden oak leaves
would tumble to the ground
children would bury themselves
under the mound
As back to the Earth a man soul goes
So the mighty oak from an acorn grows
Oak tree stood one hundred years
Then suddenly was no more
Trunk and limbs made coffins
For the man, his dreams and more
As back to the Earth a man soul goes
So the mighty oak from an acorn grows