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Music by Oscar Rasbach
Poem by Joyce Kilmer
1922
Origin : https://content.lib.auburn.edu/digital/collection/pianobench/id/234
'Oh, golly! The "Trees" bird.'
'I beg your pardon?'
'He was round at our house last night, and my aunt dragged him to the piano, and he sang "Only God Can Make A Tree".'
My heart sank. I was stunned that Ernest Plinlimmon could have been guilty of such a piece of mad folly.
Lord Emsworth and Others. 5 There's Always Golf
It was those perfect manners of his, combined with his delicate good looks and the way he had of sitting down at the piano after dinner and singing such songs as Trees in a soft, quivery tenor voice, that had first attracted Sally Fairmile.
Quick Service. Chapter 1
'If you can call it singing. Sounds like gas escaping from a pipe. "But only God can make a tree". Bah! In a really civilized community crooners would be shot on sight. Well, I won't give him a penny. How do you come to be mixing yourself up in this?'
Quick Service. Chapter 5
In any girl who is capable of falling beneath the spell of a man who sings Trees there must of necessity be a strong vein of sentiment, and J. B. Duff's desire to possess a concrete reminder of the dear old days had affected Sally deeply.
Quick Service. Chapter 6
At any rate, she was left with the feeling, coming to her now for the first time and giving her an unconfortable shock as if scales had fallen from her eyes, that Lord Holbeton, though svelte and willowy and unquestionably good at singing Trees, was not quite the man she had thought him.
Quick Service. Chapter 13
Lord Holbeton, as Joss had said, was addicted to singing Trees, and he had been doing it just before he proposed. Like so many Trees–singers, he always extracted the last drop of syrup from words and music, and that night he had let it go in a manner that might have melted a Medusa.
Quick Service. Chapter 15
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