A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

They didn't kill it. They couldn't kill that tree. Don't tell me that tree's gonna lay down and die that easy. Look at that tree, see where it’s coming from? Right up out of the cement. Didn't nobody plant it. lt didn't ask the cement could it grow. lt just couldn't help growing so much it pushed that old cement right out of the way. When you're busting with something like that, can't anybody help it. Like that little old bird right up there. Listen to him. He didn't ask anybody could he sing, and he certainly didn't take any lessons. He's so full of singing, it’s just got to bust out someplace. They could cut that old tree right down to the ground and a root would push up someplace else in the cement.