Lyrics | This Bark on Me
11. This Bark on Me
This bark on me is my skin.
It keeps diseases out
and tree juices in
and protects me
from bugs, dust, and wind.
Even though sometimes
the bugs get in.
So the woodpeckers come
and they make their marks,
saying, “Knock, knock, knock!!
We’re hungry and there’s bugs in your bark”
But, if the bark breaks,
disease may set in, killing me,
just because of broken skin,
just because of broken skin,
just because!
Now leaves make food that travels through the bark
down to the roots the food goes ( Flow -low- em )
While minerals and water rise through sap wood
up to the leaves they flow ( Xy – high – lem )
and in between the bark and the sap wood
each spring a new tree ring grows ( cambium )
so if the bark is broken in a ring around the tree
the food stops, the tree dies OHHHH NOOOOOOOO yes!