Fran learned this from Dianne one summer at Thomas Point Beach - it offers a poignant perpective on the classic gospel theme.

Lyrics

Old dogwood bloomin by a garden wall;
Wind through the branches gives a lonesome call,
Tells how it once grew straight and tall.
How it once grew straight and tall.

Ooo Ooo let the wind blow.
Ooo Ooo tell the sorrow.
Dogwood tree.
Oh dogwood, dogwood tree.

One day there came a Man from Galilee,
Son of God, they said, for you and me.
Betrayed, and brought to Pilot, mocked my men.
"Crucify Him", is what they said.

See His suffering sad lament.
Hear his cries now, Heaven sent.
He died with crosses on each side;
Dogwood crosses on each side.

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See the blossoms, his cross of wood.
See the petals now stained with blood.
See the branches all gnarled and bent;
Bent in sorrow's heaviness.

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