The Nits - Tannenbaum lyrics

Through a burning desert In an ice-cold train Tannenbaum is looking At the endless plain With a black suit and a keppel He's looking like a heron From the heart of Montréal A man without a skeleton I am an old Christmas tree With pain in kidney and liver Soon the train goes on without me Along this endless river O Tannenbaum Your branches green delight us They're green when Summer days are bright They're green when Winter snow is white Your branches green delight us O Tannenbaum Why he is thinking Why he is dreaming With his eyes wide open Like an old vampire Burned by the light of the day With the snowflakes on my hat I couldn't find the stick Above the ghosts and the dead In the holy ground