One of my favourite Beach Boys songs - especially the last minute.  Was playing it in a Richie Havens style, with open D tuning (song is actually in C sharp).  Decided to a do a version - nothing compared to the original, but it least it gave me a chance to sample the end of the song and extend it.  Listen to the album Surf's Up.
  
And sing along if you want to, because I can't... 

Feel the wind burn through my skin
The pain, the air is killing me
For years my limbs stretched to the sky
A nest for birds to sit and sing
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago
One day I was full of life
My sap was rich and I was strong
From seed to tree I grew so tall
Through wind and rain I could not fall
But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't offer
Poetry to men of song
Trees like me weren't meant to live
If all this world can give
Pollution and slow death
Oh Lord I lay me down
No life's left to be found
There's nothing left for me
Trees like me weren't meant to live
If all this earth can give
Is pollution
Trees like me weren't meant to live
(Oh Lord I lay me down)
If all this earth can give
(My branches to the ground)
Is pollution and slow death
(There's nothing left for me)
Oh Lord I lay me down
My branches to the ground
There's nothing left for me
(Jack Riley and Brian Wilson)

A Day in the Life of a Tree (version)

Enjoy music of all sorts and like to create my own.  I may not be very talented, but I have fun.
Really enjoy the Soundcloud community - much of the music is exceptional!
Very glad to be part of it.
Thank you for any listens, any likes and any comments.  
I appreciate them all.
Jim

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