GRASSMAN

(Music: TAXMAN, Harrison) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Let me tell you how it will be
Golf courses far as eyes can see
'Cause I'm the Grassman
Yeah, I'm the Grassman

Green lawns in each suburban yard
Green pastures where we grow our lard
'Cause I'm the Grassman
Yeah, I'm the Grassman

Though you'd like it wild, I want it neat
Though you'd like it diverse, I want everything discreet
Though you'd like some native species, I want some meat
As for homegrown food, I don't want you to eat

Grassman

'Cause I'm the Grassman
Yeah, I'm the Grassman

Don't ask me why I burn my seedfields (ha ha, smoke emissions)
If you don't want me to burn some more (ha ha, scorched earth)
'Cause I'm the Grassman
Yeah, I'm the Grassman

Now my response if you wonder why (Grassman)
There's laws against lawns that grow too high (Grassman)
Is I'm the Grassman
I'm not the Meadowman, no

And you're mowing for no one but me (Grassman)

 
Comments: A Beetless foray into politics and lifestyle issues, which they see as intrinsically related to their gardening lives. Much of the world's grass seed is grown in Oregon's Willamette Valley, the Beetless' home turf, where fields are regularly burned as a "sanitary" measure, releasing smoke that may be heavily-laden with dioxins. Typically, though conveying a serious message, the Beetless here take a somewhat lighthearted, nonbombastic approach. 

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