A nonsense song in nursery-rhyme style, recorded with the Band near Woodstock in 1967 and released on The Basement Tapes in 1975.
The words
A playful, nonsensical rhyme about meeting someone under a tree, sung for the joy of the sound.
The song is built like a children's rhyme, with a simple question-and-answer pattern and words chosen more for their sound than their sense. It hints at a meeting between two people under a tree, but any story is buried in silliness. Its charm is in its looseness, as if made up on the spot. A bouncing beat and a cheerful, rough-edged vocal keep it light from start to finish.
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The words
A playful, nonsensical rhyme about meeting someone under a tree, sung for the joy of the sound.
The song is built like a children's rhyme, with a simple question-and-answer pattern and words chosen more for their sound than their sense. It hints at a meeting between two people under a tree, but any story is buried in silliness. Its charm is in its looseness, as if made up on the spot. A bouncing beat and a cheerful, rough-edged vocal keep it light from start to finish.
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