If the trees knew
Language: English
If the trees knew how to run up and down the hill, If the cats and dogs could talk and we had to keep still, If the flowers all should try like birds to sing and fly, And the birds were always found growing up out of the ground, Dear, wouldn’t that be queer? Dear, dear, wouldn’t that be queer? If the babies when they came were very old and tall, And grew down instead of up to be quite young and small, If the sun should come out bright in the middle of the night, And the dark should come and stay when we knew that it was day, Dear, wouldn’t that be queer? Dear, dear, wouldn’t that be queer?
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Pulled from the score on IMSLP with the help of ChatGpt.Text Authorship:
- by Elsie J. Cooley , Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, first published 1894, copyright status unknown [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-23
Line count: 24
Word count: 121