You've walked this path many times
to where the boathouse is strangled in moor lines
we paddled out around the mark
to where the loosestrife comes up from the dark

Sick trees all along the pathside berms
and signs that tell you all about botanical terms like
elm yellows

I wasn't there when it went wrong
when the leafhoppers carried that song
in early spring leaves going brown
might be months before they finally come down

Sick trees all along the pathside berms
and signs that tell you all about botanical terms like
elm yellows

Rosy rosy
winter morning
shines through everyone
we're hanging on hanging on

The rangers worked for months and months
they cut them down and they cored out the stumps
they planted saplings and wrapped them in sails
they took the signs down from all of the trails

Sick trees all along the pathside berms
and signs that tell you all about botanical terms like
elm yellows