Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) [Demo] - 2021 Remaster

As the title implies, this really is a song with no words. Singers will often scat out words when they're coming up with vocal melodies, but they later replace them with actual lyrics. Sometimes a nonsense line will stay in, but in one, David Crosby left in his vocalizations throughout the entire song - all six minutes of it! "When I wrote this song, it seemed complete," he said. "It never asked me for words. Id did it, it felt good, so I left it that way."

It was Graham Nash who called this song "Tree With No Leaves," providing the subtitle. Nash also sang on the track with Crosby.

Crosby recalled to Uncut magazine: "I had a double handful of songs, and were good. I was doing things nobody had heard before, like 'Tamalpais High' and 'Song With No Words,' using your voice like a horns stack. They were loving that we'd do s--t nobody else had done."