Stumps Y'all Music Video

Transcript

Transcript

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

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

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

Bridge:

Up in the Rocky mountains at 8,500 feet, there’s a place called Florissant Fossil Beds that’s

where these stumps are seen and when you’re standing there, you’ll stop and stare and you

won’t believe your eyes, you’ll be in a state awe and wonder we call it STumpified we got

Chorus 3

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

A music video about the massive and unique petrified tree stumps of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.

Duration

2 minutes, 16 seconds

Credit

NPS

Date Created

05/15/2020

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