A Seed in the Wind, 1969

One day a seed is planted in the ground,
The seed is so smooth and so round,
And when it rains, the ground gets wet,
And now the seed and air have met,
The seed grows its roots,
And it brings forth a green chute.


When it gets very tall,
The leaves on it do fall,
And on each leaf is a seed,
This in a plant is its need,
And then the leaves blow away,
Blows the wind that special day.


The seed travels everywhere,
Over every bird and bear,
It travels as long as the wind doth blow,
And then it lands on the water while it flows,
And when the water flows to a lake,
Little seed awake.


It is planted in the sand,
With God's helping hand,
It grows to make a little tree,
In the middle of the salty sea,
This little tree has not sinned,
With God's helping hand from blowing in the wind.


The tree will live,
It has so much to give,
Someday a man will chop it down,
It will be tied and bound,
And carried off to be some wood,
Oh if it would talk, it could,
It would say, "I was a tree,
For you and me,
I had a seed,
Which you will need,
For he which plants the seed beneath the sod,
And waits for it to raise the clod,
He trusts in God".