There once was a tree In time gone before us Content to live his days Until one the day Man entered the forest And dragged the tree away They shaved him down into a pole And armed the wood with steel They put him in the hands of someone Pale and thin with fear The tree was fashioned into Many weapons for the brave They carried him as banners Pikes and arrows, bows and staves They fought together in the war They knew that someday, they'd be free They knew not what they all fought for But they knew that they needed the trees Their weapons couldn't take the Beating that their rivals gave Their shields were splintered down Despite the thousand arrows made Their bodies lay against the fields Their blood, dyed it red The bitter howl of death was all That mourned the fallen dead They fought together in the war They knew that now they could be free They understood what they died for The men, the steel, and the trees The battle won, they lay their dead to rest In the ground They fashioned graves for them from all the Weapons that they found With nature at their side None of their men died in vain Beneath the ground with them The tree could feel his roots again They fought together in the war They knew that now they could be free They understood what they died for The men, the steel, and the trees