{"id":1433,"date":"2011-01-11T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:34:21","slug":"oneoak-tree-planting-shanties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/oneoak-tree-planting-shanties\/","title":{"rendered":"OneOak tree planting shanties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician <a title=\"Sarah Morgan musician\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmr-harmony.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Morgan<\/a> visited <a title=\"Willowcroft community school\" href=\"http:\/\/www.willowcroft.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willowcroft Community School<\/a>, one of our OneOak partner schools, earlier this week to practice and record two tree planting songs.\u00a0 The songs will be performed by 250 children from all our five partners schools when every child returns to the OneOak woodland to plant an oak seedling in early February.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first song is performed rythmically as a call and response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tree planting song <\/strong>(<em>Words \u00a9 Sarah Morgan 2007 \/ Tune trad.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Going to take my spade, dig a hole in the ground\u00a0 (x3)<br \/>\nGoing to plant a tree before the spring comes round<\/p>\n<p>That tree will grow so tall and high (x3)<br \/>\nRoots in the earth, leaves in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>And the birds will fly from the East and the West (x3)<br \/>\nGoing to choose my tree to build their nest.<\/p>\n<p>From the acorn to the oak, from the seed to the tree (x3)<br \/>\nWe\u2019re planting a forest for you and me.<\/p>\n<p>Going to take my spade, dig a hole in the ground\u00a0 (x3)<br \/>\nGoing to plant a tree before the spring comes round<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second is adapted from a Kipling verse to suit the timing of our activities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Oak and Ash and Thorn <\/strong><em>(adapted from Kipling\/Bellamy)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oak and Ash and Thorn good sirs<br \/>\nAll on a January morn<br \/>\nSurely we sing of no little thing<br \/>\nIn Oak and Ash and Thorn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to both songs in the music box on our <a title=\"OneOak website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.OneOak.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OneOak homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Sarah Morgan visited Willowcroft Community School, one of our OneOak partner schools, to practice and record two tree planting songs.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}