O say goodbye to the little girl tree   O you know that I must say goodbye   To the little girl tree   This wall I built around you   Is made out of stone-lies   O little girl the truth would be   An axe in thee   O father look to your daughter   Brick of grief and stricken morter   With this ring   This silver hoop of wire   I bind your maiden mainstem   Just to keep you as a child         O say goodbye to the little girl tree   O you know that I must say goodbye   To my little girl tree   How fast your candy bones   Reached out for me   I must say goodbye to your brittle bones   Crying out for me   O you know that I must say goodbye   O goodbye   Even though you will betray me   The very minute that I leave         O say goodbye to the little girl tree   O Lord you know that I must say goodbye   To that little girl tree   I rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping knots   Into her laden boughs   And amongst her roping limbs   Like a swollen neck vein branching   Into smaller lesser veins   That must all just sing and say goodbye   And let her blossom veils fly   Her velvet gown   Down down down   Down down down   Down down down and goodbye   For you know that I must say goodbye         To a rhythm softly tortured   Of a motion back and forth   Thats a rhythm sweetly tortured   O that's the rhythm of the orchard   And you know that I must say goodbye   To that little girl tree   O goodbye   Yes goodbye   For you know that I must die   Down down down   Down down down   Down down down and goodbye   For you know that I must die   Yes you know that I must die   O-o you know that I must die