I SAW HERBS STANDING THERE

(Music: I SAW HER STANDING THERE, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Well, the garden was so green
You know what I mean
And the way it smelled was way beyond compare
So how could walk any further
When I saw herbs standing there?

The flowers and the bees
The birds in the trees
The sunshine and the fresh September air
So how could I walk any further
When I saw herbs standing there?

Well my secaturs went snip
And I bit my lip
I had cut down an old grape vine ...

So I ran to the woods
Pursued by all these shoulds
But I came upon a meadow bright and fair
And how could I run any further
When I saw herbs standing there?

Well my heart went boom
When I realized that soon
Civilization might fade away ...

But in the interlude
For medicine or food
Wildcrafted herbs might really, really pay

So how could I take over my father's drugstore -- ooo
When I saw herbs standing there?
Whoa since I saw herbs standing there
Yeah since I saw herbs standing there

Comments: Secaturs are an expensive cross between scissors and pruning shears. The whimsical nature of this lyric belies its deeper meanings.

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