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Screenshot from the studio version's video
Screenshot from the studio version's video
song nameDallas
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumVenue Songs, tmbg.com Free Tunes, Venue Songs (DVD/CD)
year2004
first playedJul. 17, 2004 (21 known performances)
run time0:42
sung byJohn Flansburgh, John Linnell and Dan Miller

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • This is the venue song for Trees, which closed down in late 2005 for financial reasons. (The song was known as "Trees" in the original concert setlist.) It was originally performed live on 7/17, 7/18 2004, but has since found its way into setlists several times.
  • Supposedly featuring lyrics from a poem about trees by English poet Henry Treece. Treece, author of The Black Seasons (1945) and The Haunted Garden (1947), is not the author of the poem "Trees", which was written by Joyce Kilmer.
  • The song is in the style of the English art-rock band Yes. The first three words and beginning of the melody are identical to those of Yes's song "We Have Heaven" from the 1971 album Fragile, albeit at a faster tempo.
  • John Flansburgh on the song (from dvdtalkradio.com):
We did a song for a rock club in Dallas named Trees that we basically did in the style of Yes which was very very tricky ... the song was only a minute long but we probably spent four hours straight rehearsing ... that art-rock music from the 70s. ... we realized how much better the musicians in Yes must really be than we expected.

[edit] Song Themes

Animals, Insects, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Space, Trees And Other Plants, Venue Songs

[edit] Videos

 
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