Cottonwood Trees!

Ooh, uh-uh, ooh, ooh, uh-uh (ooh, uh-uh, ooh, ooh, uh-uh)
We're hiking (we're hiking)

Oh, look, a baby tree, a seedling
It's so cute
Paige, do plant babies get their start in the tummies of the mama plant? (ha ha)
That's a funny idea, Jeff

No, plants grow right from seeds
And they have a lot of creative ways of getting around
Try this with me
Sink your roots into the soil

Suck up water through your roots (shhlulp)
Spread your branches to the sky
Collect sunlight with these leaves
And carbon dioxide with those leaves
It's a windy day

Shake your branches
And release those fluffy cottonwood seeds

When a plant wants to reproduce
It definitely needs to find a creative means of dispersing seeds
Here are five creative ways (here are five creative ways)
Plants use to send their seeds on floral holidays (ahh, floral holidays)
A palm tree drops its coconuts straight into the seas

The ocean waves will carry them to new vicinities
As a fuzzy bear walks through a field
Its coat collects the fur
This Velcro seed hitches a ride on an animal chauffeur
Spider monkeys gobble guavas (ohh)
Then pack up and go

The seeds that come out when they poop later on have a brand new place to grow
And don't forget the touch-me-nots to a driping pond explode (ohh, explode)
Touch them in the fall and they'll all find a new zip code

Last but certainly not least (ohh)
Take a look at these
How do you think these particular seeds like to travel?
The seeds of the cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees)

Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)
Sway in the summer breeze (sway in the summer breeze)
Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)

In the wintertime they freeze (freeze)

Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)
Sway in the summer breeze (sway in the summer breeze)
Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)

They have fluffy wind-borne seeds
When the wind begins to blow (when the wind begins to blow)
The seeds fly up high and land below (the seeds fly up high and land below)
And wherever the seeds go (and wherever the seeds go)
Brand new cottonwood trees will grow (brand new cottonwood trees will grow)

Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)
Sway in the summer breeze
Cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees (cottonwood trees, cottonwood trees)

And blow in the wind with expert ease
Dispersing those fluffy seeds
Carried away by an early summer breeze (carried away by an early summer breeze)