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Song: Trees Against the Sky by Moondog

/ Video: Sunlight in the Trees (2007) - filmed at Myakka River State Park in Florida, © Ivan Bridgewater, sourced from the Internet Archive at http://archive.org

Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Moondog removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. He could be found on the streets of New York wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Because of his unconventional outfits, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".