BUG ME DO

(Music: LOVE ME DO, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Bug, bug me do
You know I love you
You'll pollinate too
So please ... bug me do
Whoa-ho bug me do

Bug, bug me do
I'll plant flowers for you
My fruit will come true
So please ... bug me do
Whoa-ho bug me do

Bugs that eat bad bugs
Are bugs that I like too
Bugs don't bother our plants
When we garden in the ways we should do

Bug, bug me do
You'll be my insect zoo
The birds will like it too
So please ... bug me do
Whoa-ho bug me do

Bug, bug me do
I'll always be true
If they spray here I'll sue
So please ... bug me do
Whoa-ho bug me do

Yes, bug me do
Whoa-ho bug me do
Yes, bug me do

Comments: Dating from their early period, this song reflects the youthful enthusiasm for life that often accompanies discovery of organic vegetable gardening. Market-driven older farmers who have encountered insect problems in unnatural monoculture plantings may grind their teeth at this song, but the Beetless show their own brand of worldly realism when they threaten, "If they spray here I'll sue."

 
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)