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randall thompson - a girl's garden lyrics

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a neighbor of mine in the village
likes to tell how one spring
when she was a girl on the farm, she did
a childlike thing

one day she asked her father
to give her a garden plot
to plant and tend and reap herself
and he said, “why not?”

in casting about for a corner
he thought of an idle bit
of walled-off ground where a shop had stood
and he said, “just it.”

and he said, “that ought to make you
an ideal one-girl farm
and give you a chance to put some strength
on your slim-jim arm.”

it was not enough of a garden
her father said, to plough;
so she had to work it all by hand
but she don’t mind now

she wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
along a stretch of road;
but she always ran away and left
her not-nice load

and hid from anyone p-ssing
and then she begged the seed
she says she thinks she planted one
of all things but weed

a hill each of potatoes
radishes, lettuce, peas
tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn
and even fruit trees

and yes, she has long mistrusted
that a cider apple tree
in bearing there to-day is hers
or at least may be

her crop was a miscellany
when all was said and done
a little bit of everything
a great deal of none

now when she sees in the village
how village things go
just when it seems to come in right
she says, “i know!

it’s as when i was a farmer–”
oh, never by way of advice!
and she never sins by telling the tale
to the same person twice

- randall thompson lyrics

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