Rachel Rodwell singing The Sycamore Song

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Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:21 There were forty sycamore trees on the cold harbour roundabout

00:28 They were shining in the autumn with their colours burning bright

00:36 A little island paradise in the world of slip roads and motorways

00:43 In the name of progress, county highways, they stole them in the night

00:52 When I heard the chainsaw screaming, I thought that I was dreaming

01:06 I thought I was wrong

01:13 Here's my sycamore song

01:21 Sycamore song

01:30 When I drove to work next day, I felt that they ripped our hearts away

01:37 They never let us have our say, and they made their purpose known

01:45 They are only sycamore trees, we can plant many more of these

01:52 Mitigate our losses under bitumen and stone

02:00 When I heard the chainsaw screaming, I thought that I was dreaming

02:13 But I was wrong

02:20 Here's my sycamore song

02:28 Sycamore song

02:35 Sycamore song

02:44 Come let us watch the trees fall down, make every green field a barret town

02:51 And hedgerows turn to side roads, gravel drives and shiny doors

02:59 We'll tell our children that we heard tawny owls and singing birds

03:06 But now they are just lost words, there are no sycamores

03:14 When I heard the chainsaw screaming, I thought that I was dreaming

03:28 But I was wrong

03:35 Here's my sycamore song

03:43 Sycamore song

03:50 Sycamore song

03:55 Sycamore song

04:00 you