Here's another...
Garden Song
by David Mallett
(performed by Arlo Guthrie)

CHORUS:
Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow
Gonna mulch it deep and low
Gonna make it fertile ground

Inch by inch, row by row
Please bless these seeds I sow
Please keep them safe below
'Till the rain comes tumbling down

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Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones
We are made of dreams and bones
Need a place to call my own
'Cause the time is close at hand

Grain for grain, sun and rain
Find my way in nature's chain
Tune my body and my brain
To the music of the land

CHORUS

Plant your rows straight and long
Season with a prayer and song
Mother Earth will make you strong
If you give her loving care

Old crow watching from a tree
He's got his hungry eye on me
In my garden I'm as free
As that feathered thief up there

CHORUS

[The Anti-Garden Verses - by someone whose name Arlo forgot]:
Slug by slug, weed by weed
Boy this garden's got me t'd
All the insects come to feed
On my tomato plants

Sunburnt face, skinned up knees
The kitchen's chocked with zucchinis
I'm shopping at the A&P's
Next time I get the chance
[End of Anti-Garden Verses]

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For personal reasons, many years back, I chose 'The Rose' by Bette Midler as our theme song.

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to blead

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

The reason this song struck me (and I have to admit I heard it again last night during the opening of the Olympics is the notion that "the sky knows when it's time to snow, Don't need to teach a seed to grow" - isn't that what we're all about?

You can't beat John Denver singing The Garden Song with the muppets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3FkaN0HQgs

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
Lao-tzu

"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done."
Author Unknown

"So many seeds -- so little time."

Some of my favorite quotes.