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OH! BARLEY

(Music: OH! DARLING, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers [0]) (glossary [0]) (index [0]) (gardening guide [0])

Oh! barley
Wheat and millet
Rice, amaranth and quinoa
Oats, corn and buckwheat --- ooo

Rye, spelt and triticale

Oh! navy
Black and pinto

Lima, garbanzo, kidney
Fava, mung, azuki
Lentils and split peas

Peanut, pine nut -- sunflower, sesame seeds, cashew
Macadamia, chestnut and
Brazil
Walnut, filbert -- acorn, almond, coco too
Pistachio, chestnut, pecan, pili -- ooo -- ooo

Oh! cabbage
Carrot, lettuce
Squash, spinach, tomato
Onion, pea, corn, radish
Mint, thyme, oregano

Beet, chard, pepper -- cauliflower, leek, broccoli
Rutabaga, dill, arugula
Turnip, basil -- coriander, watercress
Nasturtium, bok choy and okra -- a-a-a-a

Oh! cherry
Apple, lemon
Pear, peach, persimmon, fig, date
Berries beyond counting

Plum, grapefruit, orange, quince, grape


Comments: Critics didn't know what to make of this one. Were the Beetless becoming materialists? Not a single verb in the whole thing.

 
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers [0]) (glossary [0]) (index [0]) (gardening guide [0])


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