Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Arbor Day/Arbor Day Song

by Jason Elmer Hammond

ARBOR DAY SONG.

[Air:—“ Upidee.”]

O, Arbor Day is here at last,
  Tra, la, la! Tra, la, la!
The cold of winter now is past,
  Tra, la, la, la, la!
Now all the trees are green and bright
The flowers are dancing in the light;
Birds are singing in the trees,
  Tra, la, la! Tra, la, la!
Boughs are swaying in the breeze,
  Tra, la, la, la, la!

The skies are clear, the skies are blue,
  Tra, la, la! Tra, la, la!
The trees and flowers are drest anew,
  Tra, la, la, la, la!
Their sweetest songs the birds now trill,
And brooks go tumbling down the hill;
To the woods now haste away,
  Tra, la, la! Tra, la, la!
This is happy Arbor Day,
  Tra, la, la, la, la!

—Journal of Education.