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              Grandma Would Sing               

Walt Sample

Grandma would sing

Little finger carrots middle finger corn

Once the May sun keeps the garden warm

Little finger lettuce middle finger beans

Either thumb keeps the zucchini green

Grandpa tilled the rich Iowa soil

It was the color of tractor oil

Loose and fine just like his Skoal

Easy to poke little black holes

Grandma would sing her plantin’ song

On garden day from breakfast dawn

I pulled the cart with jars of seeds

Six full of corn and two full of peas

Grandma would sing

Little finger carrots middle finger corn

Once the May sun keeps the garden warm

Little finger lettuce middle finger beans

Either thumb keeps the broccoli green

Grandma would sing her plantin’ song

On garden day from breakfast dawn

I pulled the cart with jars of seeds

Six full of corn and two full of peas

Grandma would sing

Little finger carrots middle finger corn

Once the May sun keeps the garden warm

Little finger lettuce middle finger beans

Either thumb keeps the zucchini green