06 Three on the Tree 4:32

6 sec lead-in Radio Friendly
Two stepping Traveling Song

A song about moving on, filled with out of date cultural references: Three-on-the-Tree”, “Float Like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee”, “High Ho Silver” and “always wear clean underwear in case you get into a wreck”,


credits
Jeff Wall - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Evan Campfield - Bass
Aaron Cummings - Drums
Mark Byerly - Electric Guitar

Words & Music - Jeff Wall

This is an older song of mine. I was trying to write a song filled with every cliché, catch phrase, jingle, and cultural reference I could come up with. The thing that I didn’t think about at the time is that I am old and all of my cultural references are w-a-y out of date.

Young people are totally unfamiliar with these phrases

“Float like a Butterfly Sting like a Bee”,
“Always wear clean underwear in case you get into a wreck”,
“Release the Flying Monkeys”
“Hi Ho Silver, Away”,
and “Three on the Tree”.

Three in a tree? Is this song about birds? or fruit? or something? No, it’s about a manual transmission. I was thinking Four on the Floor had done to death, but I had never heard a song about a Three on the Tree. I never stopped to think that most of the crowds I play for are incapable of driving a driving a manual transmission much less a 3-speed column shift manual transmission, the one known as a Three-on-the Tree.

Trivia Time- The last year a 3-on-the-Tree was available on a new production automobile was 1979, the year I graduated High School.

I learned to drive a manual transmission at 4pm on a Friday Afternoon on Franklin Road in Nashville, Tn. Shift or die, Son, shift or die.