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If This Tree Could Talk

from IMITATION LIFE produced by Tim O'Brien by Todd Burge

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about

Tim O'Brien made a PSA video last year about the Chinkapin oak for the The Nature Conservancy's "If Trees Could Sing" series.

I thought, If trees could sing, well, then they'd probably talk too. If they talked to us, they'd probably be pretty pissed.

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If This Tree Could Talk
By Todd Burge © 2015 Bunj Jam BMI

If this tree could talk
He would cuss at us
For carving our names
In his bark

Happy were we
As we cut that old tree
But to him it was way too sappy

Our carving outlasted our love I guess
The sap stopped a sad sticky mess
Now you belong to him as I belong to you
And this tree should be telling me some truth

My pocket full of posy
Is imposing on you
As I ring my final thoughts
Around the rosy

You belong to him as I belong to you
And this tree should be telling me some truth

This old tree will live rings around our lives I guess
And as most kids post their love on someone’s wall
I’ll walk up here each Fall
And talk to the tree
With the scars of the love of you and me

credits

from IMITATION LIFE produced by Tim O'Brien, released March 17, 2015
Produced by Tim O’Brien

Todd Burge – vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, banjo & harmonicas
Tim O'Brien – mandolin, violin, electric & acoustic guitars, bouzouki & backing vocals
Lex Price – upright and electric bass
Ian Fitchuck – drums, marimba & Hammond B3 organ

Kathy Mattea – backing vocals on “Change”
Larry Atamanuik - drums on “Change”
Mike Bub - bass on “Change”
Will Burge – backing vocal on “Step Aside”
Recorded and mixed at The Butcher Shoppe Studio – Nashville TN
Engineered and mixed by David Ferguson
Additional engineering by Sean Sullivan
Mastered by David K. Shipley at Foxwood Mastering – Nashville TN

Original “wire man” art by Nick Barry
Tim O'Brien appears courtesy of Howdy Skies Records
All songs by Todd Burge ©2015 Bunj Jam Music BMI

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If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more

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