Can't remember losing any trees, but I remember being really pissed off one year when the electric company sprayed heavy herbicides under their wires and right through the berry patch on the hill where I used to live. We never had a good berry crop again as long as I was out there.

On another note, where did you hear that rhyme? It sounds a lot like one I was taught as a sort of nursery rhyme as a kid, only that one was like this:

The worms crawl in
the worms crawl out
In your stomach
and out your mouth

If you see
a herse go by
You will be
the next to die

They'll wrap you up
In a bloody white sheet
And bury you under
six foot deep