Every Time I Climb a Tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants
All over me.
And every time I clime a tree
Where have you been?
They say to me
But don’t they know that I am free?
I like it best
To spot a nest
That has an egg
Or maybe three.
And then I skin
The other leg
But every time I climb a tree
I see a lot of things to see
Swallows, rooftops, and TV.
And all the fields and farms there be
Every time I climb a tree
Though climbing may be good for ants
It isn’t awfully good for pants
But still it’s pretty good for me
Every time I climb a tree.
by David McCord: “Every Time I Climb a Tree” (June 1967); type of work: collected poems by a single author in book form
David Thompson Watson McCord was born on 15 December 1897 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a poet, and was a college fundraiser as the executive director for the Harvard College Fund. Two of his collections of poems in book form are, “The Star in the Pail” (1976) and “One at a Time” (1978). David Thompson Watson McCord passed on at 99 years of age on 13 April 1997 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants
All over me.
And every time I clime a tree
Where have you been?
They say to me
But don’t they know that I am free?
I like it best
To spot a nest
That has an egg
Or maybe three.
And then I skin
The other leg
But every time I climb a tree
I see a lot of things to see
Swallows, rooftops, and TV.
And all the fields and farms there be
Every time I climb a tree
Though climbing may be good for ants
It isn’t awfully good for pants
But still it’s pretty good for me
Every time I climb a tree.
by David McCord: “Every Time I Climb a Tree” (June 1967); type of work: collected poems by a single author in book form
David Thompson Watson McCord was born on 15 December 1897 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a poet, and was a college fundraiser as the executive director for the Harvard College Fund. Two of his collections of poems in book form are, “The Star in the Pail” (1976) and “One at a Time” (1978). David Thompson Watson McCord passed on at 99 years of age on 13 April 1997 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
