Green Trees
Lyrics © 2025 Marcy Matasick
- Tune
- Greensleeves
- Written by
- Marcy Matasick
- Gaggle
- Santa Fe
- Filed
- December 14, 2025
Know the tune Greensleeves? You're ready.
Record your gaggle singing it and we'll feature it here.
- Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
- If the original tune is unfamiliar, look it up first.
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What child is there who wants to grow in toxic air and dis-ease?
‘Cause all the children that I know love li-iving things and green trees
Green trees are the lungs of earth and every child must know their worth
Green trees fill the air with life and offer us hope and healing
Oh, forest trees, your gentle shade
now cools our warming planet
your roots hold fast the living earth and shelter its thriving inhabitants
Green trees, oh pillars tall, you plead in silence your poignant call:
Save, save our forests all! from loggers’ axes unheeding
So may you grow, our guardians green your gifts forever giving
and may you sow your precious seeds, restoring the lands now grieving
Green trees, we cherish you May humankind take care of you
Green trees, your life we need
Our lives depend on your keeping
Free to sing, share, and print with credit to Marcy Matasick and the Santa Fe Raging Grannies. Not for sale. raginggrannies.org