Patti Page--Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Big Record TV Show
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2014
- Patti Page performed this rare live version of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" on her 1958 "Big Record" show, introduced by guest-star Woody Herman.
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I was born in 1954, and we sang this song when I was in grammar school. This song makes my heart smile.😇
My 7th grade teacher introduced this poem to me. It absolutely changed my life.
Thanks Mrs. Anne from Dublin CA
I love trees. This is a beautiful song
My dad used to sing this to us in the 70s. Rest in peace Dad 🥰
We sang this in grammar school in the 70’s during an assembly. My school celebrated Arbor Day. I remember drawing trees and having so much fun that day.
Happy Birthday to the Late Joyce Kilmer his Birthday is December 6 his Birth Card is Queen 👑 of Clubs Rest in Peace ☮️🕊️ Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!
My now 90 yr old mom taught us kids this song.
John Smith....
I so agree with you.
👶👈We are his little seedlings.🌳
Patti Page does beautiful work of a beautiful poem....
But as a "wonna be artist" like me....
this poem has seriously put a stop to my artist hand.
To me this poem reaches out on so many different angles.
A few years back I had a devastating experience that changed my thinking on a great many things. I had witnessed something that was in this world, that Id never saw before.... I am no longer such a "luke warm Christian," and I still have much to learn.
GOD (the one true creator of heaven and earth) created all.... As the POEM here states.... "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree".... Yes, I too, feel that humbleness... Tree's are beautiful, trees are life... There are SO MANY references to a tree, or trees, in the Bible. Trees are also a metaphor for man in the Bible, and a timeline to when to look for the second coming, etc.. There is so much in reference to a tree.... Even our own body parts are referenced from a tree,... trunk, limbs, crown.... Much of life IS shown to us through nuances and symbolism. All we need do is look up and see. But as God our only Father has made, so does his adversary like to copy and steel his many good and beautiful works. The devil, is a copycat. A thief in the dark.
So... if perhaps Mr. Joyce kilmer says that he "shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree..." I take this to mean that the artist is paying the most humble of beautiful respect and thanks to the Lord our God for what he has created of us, and for us... -As, HOW could ANY ARTIST top the works of God, our great creator. I believe in my heart that this poem is a great work of "thank you" to God. It brings me to tears so many times when I read, or hear this poem.... because it goes so deep for me... the gratitude, the many works of God, the humbleness, the metaphor, and learning of symbolism (good and bad) all around us on a daily basis, ...All the beauty through Love that God gave us. How wonderful the place of Eden must have been....and how much we have destroyed it through our many transgressions...
As a ..."want to be artist" myself,... I struggle with bringing my hand to work... -as I also feel " I shall never see" ART "lovely as a tree." How can any man improve on the works of God? 😔
Joyce Kilmer, he enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
I was just going to post the fact that he was KIA in WWI. Thank you knowing history.
Thank you for sharing ❤️
His full name was Alfred Joyce Kilmer. Some silly authors would sometimes erroneously refer to Joyce as a 'she' since Joyce has since been used by parents to name their daughters.
I love this song and every time I hear it I start to cry. When I was young I was an Artist and loved to paint trees as they were all so different and have some thing very lovely about them all.
The first song I sang, in public, when I was 13.
lovely!
Wanting to listen to poetry while driving, I decided to look up my favorite poem on RUclips. I can't believe I never knew my favorite poem had been turned into a song, with many renditions at that! (Although I should have known, it's such an obviously good choice for poetry inspired music). I'm quite pleasantly surprised.
I remember in 8th grade, Ms. Caruso took pity on myself and one other girl who had an aversion to the dissections we were to do in our science class. She excused us from the dissection, and offered an alternative assignment. To my rather pleasant surprise, the alternative assignment had nothing really to do with science, but rather handed the both of us different poems. We were to write reports on the authors of these poems. Being a fan of literature, who later went on to major in English, I was quite happy with this assignment.
What I didn't anticipate was finding one of my life long favorite poems. (And I am a rather huge fan of poetry, with many poetry books that adorn my shelves and notebooks that I've filled with my own).
So to Ms. Caruso, thank you for the gift of poetry, for strengthening my love and interest in the art at such an impressionable age. (And not forcing me to do that dissection, many other teachers were quite mean and cutthroat in that regard.)
And to Alfred Joyce Kilmer, thank you for one of the most beautiful poems mankind has ever seen. It has stood the test of time. Because beauty of nature and it's wonderment is timeless itself. I'm not a religious woman, but the line "poems are written by fools like me, but only God can make a tree" has always resonated with me.
Oh! And to the person who posted this rendition of the song: thank you! It's quite possibly the most beautiful version to ever be recorded.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Patti never made a record of it, so this live TV performance is all there is.
Learned this poem in 6th grade at 11
40 years ago.
imply BEAUTIFUL!
Simply lovely.
Such a beautiful song. And it's true only God can make a tree.
Nice song I like it very much 👌
Literally priceless
wow!! I memorized this poem as a child and had no idea it was a song Until the day I recited it for my friend and she sent me a text telling me it was a song by Patti Page!
How I miss the satin voice of Miss Pattie Page!
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Lovely
What a beautiful song, learned of it in jhs.
Io
Happy birthday to Joyce Killer his birthday verse is 1 Corinthians 12:4 rest in peace ✌️ Merry Christmas 🎄🎄 Blessings and hugs 🤗💞💓😊❤️🤗💞💓😊💗🙏🙏!
My fav schoolgirl's song
I remember singing this in elementary school!
Loved singing this years ago now
Joyce Kilmer was a man. Seriously!
Should really give his full name of Alfred Joyce Kilmer.
Very handsome man
We sang this in school, too! Of course, Alfalfa sang it first!
verry good
❤
Only God can make a tree
Ohthankyou
Alfalfa
Who wrote the music for the poem? It's a familiar sounding tune as like to one I've heard long ago but I don't recollect much other than that.
"Trees" poem by Joyce Kilmer, set to music by Oscar Rasbach in 1922.
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