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1. The trees are gnarled and gentle,
The grass is long and fair,
A hundred years of workers
Fed their hungry families here.
We're finding flowers in corners,
The grass is full of light,
And in this dark and breathing soil
We'll see our crops come right.

Chorus. Food to eat and food to keep,
And plenty yet to give away,
The earth is always generous here,
And beautiful as day.

2. We took the iron to the land,
A bill-hook 'cross my lap,
With fork and spade and secateurs,
We fixed two years' mishap.
We found panes for the greenhouse,
And nettles everywhere,
We pulled five thousand dandelions,
Threaded speedwell in our hair.

3. We bared the living soil,
Trimmed back the briar and bind,
We wove the willow, laid the thorn,
And cut the bramble-wynd.
The earth breeds scraps of porcelain,
Grown from someone's planting pot:
Willow-pattern, fifties flowers,
And old forget-me-not.

4. We're digging up potatoes
Eating raspberries from the cane
Picking poppies in the sunshine
Peas and strawberries in the rain
The plum-tree's dark and heavy
Fruit enough the branches break
We're making staves, and jars of jam
And there's crumble still to bake.

5. The soil will be our mentor
As our knowledge slowly grows
We'll move our squashes late next year,
Plant the carrots all in rows.
Here we'll grow our food and flowers
Just like hundreds did before
Earth this good is earth well-tended
Earth that loves and feeds us all.

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from Tell Me Where the Ocean Went, released September 23, 2015

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Folk singer, ukulele player and songwriter. Queer, disabled, trans, Christo-Pagan, powered by waves and mountains. :-)

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