Wow, that's weird, rgc1600...we must have been typing at the same time. I didn't see your reply until after I typed mine. And what does is say about Cypress Hill that we both put the word song in scare quotes?
Can someone save me a trip to Google and explain the Andrew Jackson - Hickory as well as George Washington - Cherry answers please? I suspect it's another case of not being an American counting against me. Although i'm also completely lost by Blue and Spruce. Lol
Andrew Jackson gained a nickname from his battlefield exploits, people said he was "tough as old hickory", and he was thereafter known as "Old Hickory".
Apocryphal story - actually made up by a biographer years after his death.
George Washington as a young lad chopped down his father's favorite cherry tree. When his father asked if he knew who had done the dastardly deed, young Georgie replied "Father, I cannot tell a lie. Twas I.
I did not do well. I couldn't get Australian trees and street names out of my head. A lot more eucalyptus (or gum), and a lot more tropical and rainforest trees - palms, coconuts, banana, tree fern, wattle, shea-oak, pandanus, quandong, fig, bougainvillea, hibiscus, jacaranda...
George Washington as a young lad chopped down his father's favorite cherry tree. When his father asked if he knew who had done the dastardly deed, young Georgie replied "Father, I cannot tell a lie. Twas I.