On a tree
inside a heart
a dull boy scout knife
took half a day to carve
Michael loves
Caroline
he'd just turned ten
and she was nine
The summer she
turned sweet sixteen
he finally found his nerve
and took her out to see
And what she saw
through her tears
was seven hearts
for seven years
And they stood beneath
the tree of hearts
And they watched
their feelings grow
And they swore
they'd never be apart
And true love left it's mark
on the tree of hearts
The tenth time
he carved their names
Carolines' dad
was giving her away
There beneath
the shelter of
the tree of hearts
they pledged their love
And then four hearts
down the road
they brought the first
of two born home
And they played beneath
the tree of hearts
And they watched
their children grow
And they swore
they'd never be apart
true love left it's mark
on the tree of hearts
In the blinking of an eye
somehow fifty-seven
hearts flew by
Fifty-eight
Fifty-nine
sixty
he missed Caroline
At sixty-one
Michael knew
there wouldn't be
a sixty-two
Now they lay beneath
the tree of hearts
you can watch
their love still grow
Where they swore
they'd never be apart
true love left it's mark
on my tree of hearts