Growing Up Isn't Easy at All

Here is a song I wrote that has an environmental theme...It was first sung by me years ago at the Annual Day Programme of the College of Social Work. I hope you like it...

Singing at the Annual Day in the
College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketal

Song:               Growing Up Isn’t Easy  
© Henrietta Decruz

Intro:  When I was a little girl, 
           my teacher said to me…

“Look all around at creation….”

Chorus:      
Growing has not been so easy 
Growing up hasn’t been easy at all
What with all the trees that have had to fall
Growing hasn’t been easy at all!

1.      Who knows I’ll wake up someday to find

That there is no more firewood to burn

Some morning when I walk up to the kitchen

No more milk, no butter, no more eggs to eat!

Modified Chorus:       Growing up will not be so easy    ] - 2     

Growing up isn’t easy at all           ]

What with all the trees that have had to fall

Growing up isn’t easy at all!

2.      I dread the day the world will be just cities

When there’ll be no more nature for my eyes

Unfortunately if I need some fresh air

I may desperately have to go to zoos!

Modified Chorus:       Growing up will never be so easy            ] - 2     

Growing up is the hardest thing of all!    ]          

What with all the trees that have had to fall

Growing up is the hardest thing of all!

3.      My heart is filled with sorrow when I think

One day there’ll be museums for trees

My grandchildren may someday have to learn

Through computers the names of extinct birds…

»    Oh I hate to contemplate

This is reality and fate

Someday we’ll no longer be human beings!!!

When you let them cut those trees

You are letting the axe to seize

Your own future and the future of this earth!!!

Oh! How I plead….

Save the trees                  ]

Save the forests               ] - repeat and fade…

Save humanity!!!            ]

Written and composed by Henrietta Decruz