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Man Who Planted Trees 🌱🌱 by Jason Mraz ( #Lyrics text below ) 

Man Who Planted Trees 🌱🌱
- by Jason Mraz ( below )

invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Rf99l

song 🌲🌳 🌲🌳
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Also see a mini-movie
on the same topic:

invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=PYlsI
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Lyrics:
Father to my Mother
Who died when I was twelve
Who didn’t leave a fortune
But a different kind of wealth

A peach for me to climb in
With fruit under its leaves
Which season after season became quite a little seed

More than just a father
He was a high almighty king
Who built himself an empire
With a small handful of seeds

And never was too noble
To get down on his knees
A seer into the future,
He was The Man Who Planted Trees

At dawn he’d catch the light away
To see what the night had brought
With coffee to repair the mind
And mend the damage done

He handed me a hat of his
To protect me from the sun
“Seek refuge in the shade,” he’d say
“Or burnt you will become.”

More than just a farmer
He was a brilliant engineer
Whose footsteps took him farther
As the fertilized the fields

And on a nation root stock
He’d place new varieties
A believer of the future
He was the Man Who Planted Trees

Ohhhh oh oh ohhhhhh ohhhh oh 🎵🎶🎵🎶

He taught me how to kiss the ground
And be grateful with my words aloud
Even the air is different now
And I’m gonna make him proud

‘Cause in the not-to-distant time ahead
Time will dispose of me
And distill me to my essence
In that great big compost heap

And if I get to heaven
The kind of angel i will be
Is one who guides another
Toward the light out on the sea

I’ll be just like my grandfather
A servant and a king
And leave behind a land brightened
By all the love I’ll bring

Singing while I’m sweating
Showing work don’t bother me

The future’s made by dreamers
And the Men Who Planted Trees

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