[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:08.97]There is a tree grows near our house [00:11.08]It's been there quite some time [00:13.01]Now the tree is a slippery elm tree [00:15.25]And awful hard to climb [00:19.48]But when my wife gets after me [00:21.52]In that tree I always roost [00:23.74]Why I can go right up it just like a healthy squirrel [00:25.97]I don't never need no boost [00:30.25]Now the other day a woodman came round [00:32.21]To chop my refuge down [00:34.27]Kept mumbling something about wanting [00:35.11]To split it into kindling wood [00:36.56]And then spreading it round the town [00:40.81]I said to him I said look here my friend [00:42.80]Hold on desist whoa stop [00:45.26]Put down that forest razor [00:47.13]Chop not a single chop [00:51.92]Woodman woodman spare that tree [00:53.85]Touch not a single bough [00:55.67]Three years it has protected me [00:57.60]And I'll protect it now [01:02.14]Go chop an oak get a birch or pine [01:04.31]But save old slippery there that's mine [01:06.20]That's the onliest tree my wife can't climb [01:08.50]Mister woodman spare it for me [01:19.11]I said to him I said woodie can you see that hole [01:21.20]Way up near that old tree top [01:23.20]Now I've got five dollars in soft money up there [01:25.43]And it's yours if you refuse to chop [01:29.99]Now no-one can climb that tree but me [01:31.93]Because really friend it's too slippery [01:34.23]Fact of the matter is [01:34.96]I can't get up there very well myself [01:36.27]Unless my wife is after me [01:40.62]Now I'm going to go home and get my wife [01:42.03]And proceed to call her a very naughty word [01:44.70]And all you do is stand by [01:46.52]While I do that imitation of a bird [01:51.50]But you ain't gonna know just where I go [01:53.44]At least while my wife's around [01:55.70]But the only thing I'm gonna ask you Mister Woodie [01:57.62]Is if you don't see me here on the ground [02:02.19]Woodie you gonna spare that tree [02:04.43]Touch not a single bough [02:06.22]'Cause I'm gonna drop all five down to thee [02:08.60]The one I promised thou [02:12.64]But you must make that axe behave [02:14.72]Because old slippery there just must be saved [02:16.87]That's the borderline 'twixt me and the grave [02:19.96]Mister woodman spare it [02:21.99]Spare that tree [02:23.98]For me