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Ponderosa Hermosa

from Earthlings by Ian Carrick

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I grow where the bright suns shines                                     
Slow and steady yet I’m alive                                                
I smell like vanilla sweet                                            
I’m your ponderosa tree                                                        
 
My cones hold 75 seeds                                                                    
I feed the finches, the chickadees                                         
They have to peck through my spikey cones                        
I am generous, I share my home                                           
 
Ponder-o, ponder-o, ponderosa                                           
How you grow, how you grow. hermosa                                                                                                     
Underground my roots reach far,                                         
Growing as long as I am tall                                                   
In my woods find the mother tree                                        
The oldest one gives me food to eat                                     
 
Ponder-o, ponder-o, ponderosa                                           
How you grow, how you grow, hermosa     
 
Gentle giant watching over us
Gentle giant watching over us
 
My sap is a glowing gold                                                        
I live to be 500 or more                                             
I can survive small wildfires
My life story will make you smile                                          
 
I’m your shade from the desert day                                      
I’m home for the squirrels and jays                                       
I find water in the dry dry ground                                         
And I wear a green majestic crown                                       
 
Ponder-o, ponder-o, ponderosa                                           
How you grow, how you grow, hermosa     
 
Gentle giant watching over us
Gentle giant watching over us 
Us    

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from Earthlings, released June 6, 2023

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Ian Carrick Bend, Oregon

Ian is a community-oriented songwriter, songleader and music teacher based in his hometown of Bend, OR.

Ian sings on the ancestral lands of the Paiute, Wasco and Warm Springs people and is open to learning what right relationship looks like.

As a light-skinned banjoist, Ian tithes monthly to the Black Banjo Reclamation Project
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