My roots are deeper than the bones the others
 
 My colors they change with the sun
 
 My branches we’re higher than anything on the hillside
 
 On the day that I watched them all come
 
  
  Some wear the color of the sky in the winter
 
 Some we’re as blue as the night
 
 They came like a storm with the light of the morn
 
 And they fell thru the whole day and night
  
 
 Colors flew high and they danced in the sky
 
 As I watched them come over the hill
 
 Then to my wonder sticks that made thunder
 
 Such a great number lay still
  
 
 When the light came again there was death on the wind
 
 As the buzzards made way for the worms
 
 And the little white trees that don’t bend in the breeze
 
 For the ones that will never return
  
 
 The colors flew high and they danced in the sky
 
 As I watched them come over the hill
 
 Then to my wonder sticks that made thunder
 
 Such a great number lay still
  
 
 Those that have fallen they come when I call them
 
 And answer the best that they can
 
 But all they can see is what they used to be
 
 And that’s all that they understand
  
 
 The colors flew high and they danced in the sky
 
 As I watched them come over the hill
 
 Then to my wonder sticks that made thunder
 
 Such a great number lay still
  
 
 Colors flew high and they danced in the sky
 
 As I watched them come over the hill
 
 Then to my wonder sticks that made thunder
 
 Such a great number lay still