Garden Song, by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Doubling up here with a song I recorded today for Dad’s memorial service.
This song is a multi-generational family favorite, with roots in the Peter, Paul, and Mary kids concerts we all saw on PBS pledge drive weeks in the 1980s and beyond. (Can I sing “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly” note for note matching the VHS, including the funny voices and weird throat noises? I mean, kinda, I’m a dad, too.)
Our parents know it, our kids know it, and it’s a good lesson about doing the work. Plant seeds, give them what they need to grow, and don’t stop.
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There’s a second vocal and a noodly second guitar track, but I was kinda in a hurry to get this done on time today so I could finish writing my speech.
And of course, doing the reading on this one, it was written by David Mallett circa 1975, so it’s not an old Pete Seeger tune, but Pete Seeger did record one, as did Raffi, Arlo Guthrie, John Lithgow, and literally John Denver with the Muppets.
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