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B-side
  
"Carrot Cake & Wine"

Format
  
7" vinyl, CD single

Genre
  
Rock

Released
  
11 August 1997

Recorded
  
1992 and 1997

Length
  
3:02

"A Thousand Trees" is the third single by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. The song is taken from their debut album, Word Gets Around and was released in August 1997. It reached #22 on the UK Singles chart.

Contents

The catchy, anthemic opener is about a respected junior football coach who ruined his career through rumours about a lurid sexual encounter with a female student.

The title and the lyric 'It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches but only takes one match to burn a thousand trees' came from the back of a box of England's Glory matches.

Track listing

All music written by Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuart Cable. All lyrics composed by Kelly Jones; Except where indicated.

CD 1
  1. "A Thousand Trees" – 3:03
  2. "Carrot Cake & Wine" – 4:27
  3. "A Thousand Trees" (Live at Oxford Zodiac 23.3.97) – 3:39
CD 2 - Acoustic EP
  1. "A Thousand Trees"
  2. "Home to Me"
  3. "Looks Like Chaplin"
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)
7" vinyl
  1. "A Thousand Trees" – 3:03
  2. "Carrot Cake & Wine" – 4:27

Other versions of the song

  • A live version of "A Thousand Trees" and "Carrot Cake & Wine" is included in the live album Live From Dakota.
  • The video can be found on the Call Us What You Want But Don't Call Us in the Morning DVD.
  • The song is also performed on the Live at Cardiff Castle, Live at Morfa Stadium and Live from Dakota DVDs.
  • Trivia

  • The song appears in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 along with "Dakota".
  • The song and band both appear in a BBC Wales advertisement for the 1999 Five Nations Championship.
  • References

    A Thousand Trees Wikipedia