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Stumps Y'all

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Transcript

Stumps Y’all Verse 1: Thirty four millions years ago, in the land we now call Colorado Redwood trees lived with ease in the shadows of a volcano Eruptions from that volcano, made a lahar – a big mudflow and it buried up the bottoms of the trees and they eventually turned to stone now we got Chorus 1 Stumps Y’all Tree Stumps Y’all yeah, they used to be alive now they’re petrified we got Stumps Y’all Tree stumps Y’all, they’re totally fossiliferous we got Stumps Y’all Tree Stumps Y’all yeah, they used to be alive now they’re petrified we got Stumps Y’all Tree stumps Y’all yeah, they’re pretty cool Verse 2: Ten to twelve feet wide, a car could fit inside ten feet tall that’s not so small about a story high They weight 50 tons, ten times an elephant, they got the biggest girth on the Earth these stumps are supersized now we got Chorus 2 Stumps Y’all Tree Stumps Y’all yeah, they used to be alive now they’re petrified we got Stumps Y’all Tree stumps Y’all, they’re totally fossiliferous we got Stumps Y’all Tree Stumps Y’all yeah, they used to be alive now they’re petrified we got Stumps Y’all Tree stumps Y’all yeah, they’re pretty cool

Description

This song is about some of the biggest petrified tree stumps in the world (by diameter). These massive redwood tree fossils are found at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.

Duration

2 minutes, 17 seconds

Credit

NPS/Jeff Wolin

Date Created

03/24/2020

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