Culture - Two Sevens Clash - [1977]

This is the title track [video | lyrics] off one of the most famous albums to come out of Jamaica. The 
tree was a spiritual symbol to the locals of Jamaica, so when it final fell down, they believed it was divine punishment for Babylon's ills.

"Look at the cotton tree out by Ferry police station 

See how beautiful it used to be

And it has been destroyed by lightening

earthquake and thunder I say

What! A liv an bamba yay 

when the two sevens clash"