For the #10x10 challenge, tho it’s more like 11x30. This was a FEAT to record in the last hours of FAWM but we’re going out with a 🌳🔥

My mom once took a picture of a sign that stated "some trees have silent powers" - I do not know the context or have the picture still unfortunately 🤣 But here is a song about the silent powers/personalities of all 14 trees in my backyard.

Content warnings:

• slut shaming of an aggressively fertile walnut tree
• vague dead pet reference
• garage theft
• self-loathing gays
• cannabis-induced paranoia
• cancer survival
• Qanon
• skinny twink privilege
• closing time

#fuc ing around with every single ukulele

#banjolele #folk #electricuke #spokenword #psychedelic #80s #synthpop #indiefolk

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Maeve (Walnut)

#banjolele #folk

Maeve keeps making babies, dropping walnuts on my house Maeve keeps making babies, I keep pulling out the sprouts It's against my nature to kill trees But walnut roots kill everything Maeve, you silly backwoods slut, if you can't quit dropping nuts There will not be a house to nut upon

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Warden (Red Pine)

#electricuke

Warden, you're always wardin' My house and I cannot repay I give you my orange peels and haircuts and dead pets You keep their little spirits safe

But you didn't stop the guy who broke into my garage And stole all my lawn equipment

Warden, working overtime wardin' You did your best, man And that's great

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Manfred and Turbold (Red Pines)

#spokenword

Manfred and Turbold are in a sadosexual semicolloquial relationship. They don't talk about it Manfred is straight Supposedly Turbold is a log cabin Republican Unapologetically They hate each other But mostly themselves

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Yvonne (Red Pine)

#banjolele

Grandma left a birdhouse on this tree It has a Y-shaped trunk, just like the middle name she gave to me I hope she doesn’t mind if I change it Yves She can stay Yvonne, which is just John with extra letters secretly

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Angus (Red Pine)

#electricuke #psychedelic

I always forget about Angus He's a stoner with a sleepy eye And the squirrels feel safe hiding thangs in his pockets He don’t suffer spies

He disrupts helicopter signals with only his mind I always forget about Angus And that's the way he likes

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Cerridwen, Brigid, and Angela (Cedar)

#80s #synthpop (Logic drums, synth, & bass sample)

Sisters three Goddesses in cedar trees

Cerridwen with dripping leaves Brigid's bark so fiery And Angela

(Who's Angela?)

She's giving cigarette mom She's giving "and I'm Dooneese" She's giving had breast cancer 3 times But you can't take my teats She's giving Angus more delusions and might be in Qanon Cedar isn't supposed to rot but she does what she wants

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Grandfather Solomon and Linus (Red Pines)

#banjolele #electricuke

Dm F Am G Grandfather Solomon Your crown is tall, your roots are long I think you tell tall tales That go on far too long

But you're a strong A body one can lean upon You’re so strong Grandfather Solomon

Oh, Linus is your lastborn son The youngest of the lot The man’s like 45 but we still act like he's a tot He's heard the story 'bout the red tailed hawk like 20 times Please pray for Linus and his family line, oh no

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Lava Mother (Red Pine)

#baritoneukulele Sufjan Stevenscore #indiefolk

Lava Mother Lava Mother Your sap is abundant Your crevasse is haunted

Lava Mother Lava Mother Tell me what the insects know What is running down below

Lava Lava

Down below

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Grizzabello (Red Pine)

Concert #ukulele

I wish I could be free like Grizzabello With their pretty dress and silly little socks The self loathing gays hate to see them 'cross the way But Grizzabello tells them to kick rocks

We can't all be free like Grizzabello They're a performance artist and a mime With skinny twink privilege that they fully acknowledge A body for the arts where they just thrive

I could be free like Grizzabello But I have to take their acting class It's like 2000 dollars so I think I will decline Cuz they live rent free in my yard as a multigender pine They have incredibly high standards and that's fine But we can't all be free like Grizzabello

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Grandmother Stone (Red Pine)

#banjolele

Last fruits For Grandmother Stone She’s the old lady leaning over my home

Stone fruits Down to the bone Last call, the patrons don’t gotta go home

But you gotta go, you gotta go Just a stone’s throw, just a stone’s throw

(Freestyle) Last fruits for Grandmother Stone Old lady leaning over my home And I don’t wanna go home So I’m singing a sad song Throwing the bone to the dogs in the back yard All the dogs in my neighbor’s yard, they’re yapping all day I don’t wanna go home So I’m gonna fade out— listen to me I don’t want go home Oh god that was bad Good thing I faded out before this