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A Seed's A Star / Tree (medley)

Composed, Produced & Arranged by Stevie Wonder
'Tree' Lyrics : Stephanie Andrews


Dennis Davis - Syndrums
Ron Kersey - Fender Rhodes
Ben bridges, Michael Sembello - Guitars
Nathan Watts - Bass
Earl DeRouen - Congos and Bongos
Joe Johnson - African Ago-go bell
All Other Instruments - Stevie Wonder


In album: Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979)


We're a people black as is your night
Born to spread Amma's eternal light
Which since time began
Has been to bring truth to every man
Our ancestors have since long ago
Passed their wisdom down so we to know
For here lies the key
That will help unfold the mystery

A seed's a star
A seed's a star's a seed
A star's a seed
A star's a seed's a star

In myself I do contain
The elements of sun and rain
First a seed with roots that swell
I gradually burst through my shell
Pushing down into the ground
The root of me is homeward bound
A trunk, a leaf and there I am

A miracle of least by far

Tree - you are the longest living one we know
the largest of all plants and still you grow

Tree - within your branches there's such history
so much of what we're searching for to know

Every fifty years we celebrate
Po Tolo, our star, as it rotates
Though infinitely small
It is still the heaviest of them all

(Background)

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A seed's a star's a seed
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