Name: The Community Garden Greens
Duration: P00H06M34S
Description: I love gardening: making beds, planting seed, growing plants, watering them, tasting the results, feeling better for it...its a creative process not unlike making music. Doing green stuff helps you get rid of the blues...try it.

The Community Garden Greens

from Thinking Man's Blues by Stomperoo

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I love gardening: making beds, planting seed, growing plants, watering them, tasting the results, feeling better for it...its a creative process not unlike making music. Doing green stuff helps you get rid of the blues...try it.

lyrics

The Community Garden Greens © Roo Friend APRA 2017

Most people sing the blues
But I’m telling you I got the greens
Most people sing the blues
But I’m telling you I got the greens
Cos blues is about a bad time
But my green is a beautiful dream

My baby didn’t leave me
She didn’t even catch a train
My baby didn’t leave me
She didn’t go to Buranda Station and catch a train
My baby’s in the garden today
Picking potatoes and beans again

I got the greens so bad
Do you know what I mean, feeling green?
I got the greens so bad
Do you know what I mean, feeling green?
I planted a seed the other day
And now its beautiful head can be seen

Oh blue is a seductive feeling
But green is a positive cure for blue
Oh yeah blue is a seductive feeling
But green is a poitive cure for blue

Well let me tell you people
I got the community garden greens
Well let me tell you people
I got the community garden greens
I cooked em up in a stir fry
And they were the nicest I’ve ever eaten

credits

from Thinking Man's Blues, released May 7, 2017
Roo Friend baritone hybrid guitar, vox
Dillion James organ
Sam Pace electric piano
Jim Toomey drums
engineered and mixed by Arlo Buble
mastered by Don Grossinger New York
produced by Roo Friend

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Stomperoo Brisbane, Australia

Stomperoo, sideman to the famous, playing guitar music crossing over on blues, jazz, folk and funk, re-defining and de- constructing everything from divorce, property settlement, gardening and crop rotation to junk food, obesity, infants, terrorism, sex and traffic, in the style of Mose Allison, Georgie Fame, Tom Waits, and Arlo Guthrie. ... more

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