When I was a child I learned a song at my school. For years this song has come into my head without me ever knowing the title nor the writer. I don’t know why I have not looked it up before now, but today I awoke and felt the need to investigate. Does it really exist? If so, who wrote it?

So, I typed into Google a line from the song “Weeping sky we bring the sun” and there it was…

Neil Diamond’s – Childsong.

Weeping sky
We bring the sun
To make you glad
And fill you with the day.

Quiet tree
We have the wind
To make you dance
And fill you with our play.

And you shall be glad
And you shall dance
And you shall come
To hear our song
And learn its tune
Before it fades away.

1970 Prophet Music, Inc.

In my own way, to celebrate Earth Day, I went back to the song that always sent me off in a dream communing with nature. I drifted to a rainy day and the smell in the air I love so much that follows when the sun warms the earth.  It was the quiet tree though, that truly captured my dream. A willow tree, my mind’s eye would watch it dance happily for the wind and I felt that happiness go right through me. I still have that imagination that my child self conjured up for that song and I know that is a good thing. I do not know what the inspiration was for Mr. Diamond to write it, but I do know it inspired a girl, now a woman, to be thankful for mother earth. (photo taken 2008 on our trip to Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC)