Name: There's a Lesson To be Learned in the Trees
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Channel: Paul Arenson
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. When children die, we must be there to turn death around. It was true during the Vietnam war, and it is true today. Resist and refuse.

There's a Lesson To be Learned in the Trees

Paul Arenson

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When children die, we must be there to turn death around. It was true during the Vietnam war, and it is true today. Resist and refuse.

peace war protest

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Paul Arenson

Paul Arenson is a sometimes singer, songwriter, teacher and political activist, born in NY, resident physically in Japan and Boston. Puccini and Seeger were bot

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Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #8

Peak in subgenre #4

Author

Paul Arenson

Rights

Paul Arenson

Uploaded

May 15, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.7 MB • 160 kbps • 2:22

Story behind the song

Anti-war song inspired by Herman Hesse's "Wandering" and Pete Singer's "If you want to have great love, you've got to have great anger".

Lyrics

There's a lesson to be learned in the trees
Go to the forest
Go and you will see it
And when you  return, when you return
You'll pass it around
The trees live and we should see that children live too
And when children die
Then we must be there
To turn death around
Armed only with love and anger
There's a lesson to be learned in the trees
They love with Emerald wonder
Now go out from the forest
And bring back all the wounded

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