Thank Feighan it’s Friday.
As we all dust down our autumn sweaters, it’s the season for a voucher-less music sesh.
This week, I want to know: What’s your favourite song whose title or lyrics mention trees or leaves.
Here’s mine.
Lines MUST close on Saturday at Midday.
Please include video link if possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Meanwhile…
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
Last week, we asked you to name your favourite song whose title or lyrics refer to dreams.
Otis Blue‘s entry won my esteem, as he enthused:
“Bonus marks for soundtracking the nightmarish ‘Beer at Ben’s’ scene in Blue Velvet (1986) in which a ‘fkn suave’ Ben played by Dean Stockwell serenades Frank Booth played by Dennis Hopper.”
Nick says: Well done, Otis Blue and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Pic: Rollercoaster Records, Kilkenny
…for me it’s got to be…
Sycamore Trees – Jimmy Scott
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HnFgsQUqugI
End of the Season. The Kinks.
Lilac tree -Nina Simone-
I lost track of who wrote this marvellous song but because we all know (and love) Jeff Buckley’s version, I nominate Nina simone’s which is equally or even more moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKYhkYWl1AI
“…get out of your tree…”
https://www.youtube.com/wtch?v=hhu9x3fD04Q
If that doesn’t touch your heart, you probably haven’t got one :-)
There is so much bond in the air these days.Further fuel to the fire !
Cibelle – Underneath the mango tree
https://youtu.be/HsgBwyBmA2M
For me it has to be Forever Autumn by the Moody Blues. A wonderfully evocative song, reminding me of the sad times I had break-ups with some wonderful young ladies, including Little Slightly’s mother. Twas of an autumn she left me.
Through Autumn’s golden gown we did used kick our way. Now she’s not here. But our Little one is, and the leaves are starting to fall. Perhaps we can kick our way through these leaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEuB-u8OWVI
Side note: as I wrote this, she managed to set off the fire alarm with a candle. At least I know it works :-)
that’s very moving
That’s fantastic choice alright
Love this song so much. It’s a long time autumn fave of mine.
My favourite song mentioning trees or leaves is Wake Up by Mad Season. Grunge supergroup Mad Season drew from Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and the Screaming Trees with many guest performers. Layne Stanley’s best work in my humble opinion.
https://youtu.be/x6E0Z8wqNDQ
“…something, something, sycamore…”
There’s nothing like a soothing lullaby and this is nothing like a soothing lullaby:
Beasts of Bourbon – Psycho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk7pxBGLqaM
Yves Montand – Les Feuilles Mortes (the Dead Leaves) 1951
Original French version of Autumn Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfsp8kwJto
Not trees or leaves but all kinds of flora found in the Burren. This is a collaboration between the Belfast poet Michael Longley and Duke Special based on Longley’s poem “The Ice Cream Man” – it’s incredibly moving in my opinion, Longley wrote the poem about a man who had an ice cream shop in Belfast and was killed in the troubles. He wrote the poem for him and in this collaboration reads out a letter he received from the man’s Mother – a most treasured possession of the poet.
https://youtu.be/Nk65Oj24Ch8
Well seeing as Fake Plastic Trees are fake and plastic and not at all in keeping with the spirit of this week’s theme, I’ll go with a song of immense beauty and meaning – especially for time of the year that’s in it.
Fruit Tree from Nick Drake from his 1969 album Five Leaves Left (A twofer! How’s that for value?!)
https://youtu.be/Y8MQcrR4OSc
A post-Punk classic: “Leaf me alone” ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpYieracqw
doh! (slight return):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpYieracgw
there, fixed that!
sublime!
doh! (slight return):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-2zpYieracgw
there. fixed that!
allons, enfants de la Republique…!
beaucoup trop de tristesse sur BS ce soir,
parmi toutes ces feuilles mortes!
sachez que pour la vie, il n’y pas d’antidote! Oui, mais…
“when Spring rejoices down the lane, and everything is new again…”
the voice of Annie Lennox …and the chimes at 0.24…!
@ Youtube: Eurythmics “Julia” – Official Music Video
from the soundtrack of the film “1984”
Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
https://youtu.be/O7tfTBtpR0E
Beautiful, haunting, sad yet also tinged with joy, a song I put on sometimes when I think of departed loved ones.
Autumn Leaves
Eva Cassidy
https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c
There are no words for this but do we need any?
Dédicaces to the auld fella
Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OyD6C8qre78&feature=share
Excellent
We’ll get on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
Total gibberish but somehow it works
well it worked on me Ma, my Dad used to send recordings of love songs over to Scotland to lure her back, little did he know the whole family listened to those sweet nothings ….all 14 of them, she came back all the same
it’s a loose dedicace, he was….away
Sean Paul – Like glue
– ”Need a lot of trees up in my head”
Check it:
https://youtu.be/0zZ2bifb338?t=22
https://youtu.be/jPgp_ccE_oE
Dedicated to Fluffy ;) :)
The Andrews Sisters, Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
I got the sunshine, rivers and trees… green leaves…
-Protoje – Who Knows (ft. Chronixx)
https://youtu.be/hzqFmXZ8tOE
https://youtu.be/l06ozEXOSaY
Andy Irvine singing ‘as i roved out’.
I sang this to my youngest when she was a nipper to get her to sleep. Even now, she’s usually conked out by the time yer wan lays under the willow tree.
I’m gonna play that now, anything that works !!!
This is the first one that comes to mind for me
California Dreaming The Mamas and the Papas
https://youtu.be/N-aK6JnyFmk
Me too H
Me and all. I nominated this last week and was about to recycle it here, two for the price of one. Dreaming and leaves, classic.
John Spillane – The dance of the Cherry trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GAG_y6WJ_8
Sing up
Joan Armatrading – Willow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV0rhsMAiKM
Kudos – I love that tune.
My winner at least.
Maith an Fear
Belly – Feed the Tree
https://youtu.be/RQJjUbMrt8w
The Cure – A Forest
https://youtu.be/-cJ_Yh1bNuM
There can be only one true song….
The Cure – A Forest, especially live, the bass makes the hairs on your neck stand on end.
https://youtu.be/r54jwZvtJck
“Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
And laid it on the she and me
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
But there ain’t nobody that can sing like me
Ain’t nobody that can sing like me…”
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
https://youtu.be/jspgA77tH8k
“It’s in the trees
It’s coming…”
Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
https://youtu.be/Aww5fA607ug
“My apple tree, my brightness
It’s time we were together…”
I Am Stretched on Your Grave was translated into English by short story maestro Frank O’Connor from a 17th century Irish poem titled Táim sínte ar do thuama. It was first put to music by Other Voices supreme Philip King in 1979 and later by Sinead O’Connor. For me this is the best.
Dead Can Dance – I Am Stretched On Your Grave
https://youtu.be/PflchjMxLoo
And the first recorded version with a natty pink boiler-suited Philip King on vocals
Scullion – I Am Stretched On Your Grave
https://youtu.be/s8EQQK-uN2Y
I was new to music (apart from Abba, sorry J), and I saw this performed live on the Late Late and I was blown away.
Billie may have laid down the definitive track, but this was the one that woke me up.
https://youtu.be/WcL-g12iEXY
Mary Coughlan, Strange Fruit
je t’aime toujours ;)
Snap! I heard that for the first time on the Late Late too, sung by Mary. I couldn’t move in my chair for the duration of the performance. Mesmerising and a bit terrifying.
A great song. Well sung, but Billie H.’s is better and resonates more. It is just wrong to hear this kind of sentiment sung by anyone other than a Black person.
I wonder how, I wonder why,
Yesterday you told me ‘bout the blue blue sky,
and all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree”
Fools Garden: Lemon Tree
https://youtu.be/wCQfkEkePx8
Sorry, has to be done. I was waiting for this post :-)
Dustin, Christmas Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEgiA3O0u48
Belated congratulations to Otis Blue. A well-deserved win!
Top one!
Henceforth you can rest on your laurel(s), eh, leaves… I guess.
:-)
First class huffing song, complete with apple tree
Peggy Lee – I don’t wanna play in your yard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v43aQTsVb5o
Fiona Regan’s Dogwood Blossom was used to stunning effect in the final scenes of the Shane Meadows’ drama, This is England ‘88. Here he performs an acoustic version with Anna Friel.
https://youtu.be/hBA4JZdpM8M
And soundtracking This is England ‘88
https://youtu.be/yAWW-Jsnr94
Just enough time to slip in a gallows tree, lest we forget
The Dubliners – God save Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNuNUEWxV8
Will Young – Leave right now
https://youtu.be/WbrSLLv0AlA
Clannad – Crann Úll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qVcg2lWplI
The National – Cherry Tree
https://youtu.be/Se22qR6m1Qc
Love this.
Paul Weller & Portishead – Wild Wood (sheared wood remix)
https://youtu.be/Vzm94QKE-TI
Richard Hawley – Heart of Oak
https://youtu.be/zr2JTS0XQ5Y
“Yoga town, this is my town, let it all freeze
Women in the trees
Men are on their knees
Crying, “Baby, please…”
Decent recent single from Graham Coxon’s new graphic novel.
Superstate (feat. Graham Coxon and Valentina Pappalardo) – Yoga Town
https://youtu.be/ck7FT9p2cRI
Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad?
Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár…
The Dubliners with Seán Cannon – Cill Chais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN8bD_jqPaA
Strange Fruit.
Billie Holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
“Southern trees bearing strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the roots
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”
Galliano – Jus’ Reach
https://youtu.be/G_1nM6GjbdQ
Acid Jazz perpetrators who can’t see the wood from the trees, apparently
U2 – Shadows and Tall Trees
https://youtu.be/KbK9jDKzRMM
Bono used trees in a good few songs. I imagine he wrote this one looking out of his bedroom window.
Laurel and Hardy – Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
https://youtu.be/B13QoA59tA4
“On the trail of the lonesome pine”
The classic scene from Way Out West. Still funny over eighty years later.
Or is the song called “On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine”? I must go to bed.
I used to listen to this on a radio show in the late 70s. Mike Murphy on RTE 1 in the morning I think. Yowsa yowza yowza!
“Oh it’s a funny time of year
There’ll be no blossom on the trees”
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man – Funny time of Year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gj1STTpF5E
From their first, and probably best, album Word Gets Around
Stereophonics – A Thousand Trees
https://youtu.be/d-S1o5OmMMo
https://youtu.be/L2UTjoVVVb4
ZZTop – ‘Jesus just left Chicago’
RIP Dusty Hill
Eats, shoots and leaves?
I am going to put this up again.just ‘cos I can
It has trees, leaves and some strange fruit.
Burl Ives big rock candy mountain
https://youtu.be/f4rG5nB7wB0
sweet childhood days – music can be time travel.
Happy Saturday
Galliano – Five Sons of the Mother
https://youtu.be/93esPoUJDfA
The leaves blend to a haze
Turn the volume up…
Bob & the Wailers
Small Axe –
https://youtu.be/b0Tk-FoiX_0
Sorry for duplicate on bob, just seen Lookalike 7.
Louis Armstrong
https://youtu.be/CWzrABouyeE
Wonderful Indeed……
What colour the trees.
Wayne and Wanda – Falling Leaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNiT1kpFD8
:-)
Lyrics with Tree? Got ta be Motorhead yeah!
The chase is better than the catch.
“little beauty, I love you madly,
Come on home with me,
I know you’re hot, I know what you’ve got,
You know I want to shake your Tree”
https://youtu.be/PktB0bxo2oQ
Have a little tree with lights on it, courtesy of Fairuz:
O Tannenbaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-7uiDG4MEg
One for the clean-up – it will be done in no time at all.
Michael Bibi – Hanging Tree
https://youtu.be/g8oADIuyWYU
Ullalume (Edgar Allan Poe) sung by Jeff Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgeaqpmqUT8
Don’t Leave Me This Way. Communards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHBAd5YUR8
Not a song, but Keith Richards falling from a tree
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rolling-stone-richards-falls-out-of-his-tree-xc26hs8wrp8