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Grow Do It
01:03
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It's a beautiful day out in the yard and
we’re gonna get out and play in the garden
There’s plenty to do but we’re not gonna work too hard and
We’re gonna have some fun with all our friends!
C’mon lets Grow… Grow Do It
Everybody get up, get going, get outside and get into it
Yeah, we’re gonna work it out as we go
cos we've got so much food to grow
so we can share it round with all our
share it round with all our
share it round with all our friends.
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Anything You Want
03:23
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You can do anything you want
when it’s good for you
and good for everyone
There’s no need to wait just activate
Do what you can with what you’ve got
You can be anything you want
When you is who you is
playing your own part
It’s alright to listen to suggestions
But just be who you are.
Cos it’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right
Put your mind to what you want
Write it down every night
Cos it’s gonna be right
When the time is ripe
well, you can’t go wrong when it’s right
You can have
anything you want
when you realise
the best things aren’t things at all
and what you have
improves with gratitude
So just love what you’ve got
You can grow anything you want
if it feeds your soul,
and anything beyond
You’ll have way more
if you share it ‘round
So give it everything you’ve got!
Cos it’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right
Put your mind to what you want
Write it down every night
Cos it’s gonna be right
When the time is ripe
Well, you can’t go wrong when it’s right
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Sweet P'tata
02:34
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You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
I’m gonna eat ya later, eat ya later, eat ya later
You’re no dud spud under mud, you’re unrelated
cos you’re my sweet p’tata
Well, I see you being all shrivelled in my cupboard
Let me put you in the garden bed I think you’ll love it
Gonna leave ya underground until you make another
Little sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
You’re a ground cover, ground cover, ground cover
Mound lover, drought tougher, you’re my sound brother
Gonna dig ya, wash ya, cook ya, eat ya for my supper
My little sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
Yeah, you sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
I’m gonna eat ya later, eat ya later, eat ya later
You’re my kind of dynamic accumulator
My little sweeeeeeee….
I’m gonna pluck your leafy tips
I’m gonna cut you into chips,
Maybe whip me up some dip
My little sweet p’tata
You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
I’m gonna eat ya later, eat ya later, eat ya later
You're my saviour with the flavour that I wanna savour.
My lil sweet, sweet, sweert
You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata
I’m gonna eat ya later, eat ya later, eat ya later
Than a regular potato, you are so much greater.
My little sweet, my sweet, my sweet ptata.
Chords: Gm, Eb7, D7, Cm
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Kimchi! It’s good for me!
It’s the best stuff that I eat, I guarantee
Kimchi! So good for me
I wanna make it for my friends and my family
All I do is I get my daikon radish with a cabbage finely diced
Then I chop a bit of chilli with the garlic and the ginger to crank it up with spice
Add saltiness, sweetly caress it to give it a good massage
Then when I see that water rise I stuff it inside a jar
Kimchi! It’s good for me!
Fermenty probiotic flavour jamboree
Kimchi! What does it mean?
Something like salty pickled veggies in Korean
Kimchi! It’s good for me!
It’s the best stuff that I eat, I guarantee
Kimchi! So good for me!
I wanna make it for my friends and my family
Well, let’s stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it inside a jar!
Yeah, let's stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it inside a jar!
C'mon let's stuff it, stuff it, stuff, stuff it, stuff it it inside a jar!
C'mon let's stuff it, stuff it, stuff, stuff it, stuff it it inside a jar!
Kimchi! Take it from me, you wanna leave it out on the bench for about a week
Kimchi, when it’s ready well, y’know your whole kitchen’s really gonna reek
Be careful when you try and take a peek
Yeah, but kimchi is the flavour that I seek!
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You are what you eat
And you are what what you eat eats
And you’re even what what what you eat eats eats
Here’s a clue, why don’t you
Take a peek beneath your feet
If you want to know what you're made from
Look at what what you're made from's made from
Cos the stuff that we're all made from is the same
Yeah we goes from dust to dust
So gotta just trust that upper crust
And maintain that good terrain from whence you came
We’ve been looking up
We’ve been messing ‘round
We’ve been freakin' out
But it’s time to get
Down, down, down
Cos we’re made up
of common ground
Can’t live without it
And it's time to get
Down, down, down, down, down
When you flirt with the dirt
You’ll observe it's certainly not inert
From a worm to a chicken
“Bok Begerk!”
You’re never alone on the loam
and it’s time to get to work!
We’ve been looking up
We’ve been messing ‘round
We’ve been freakin' out
But it’s time to get
Down, down, down
Cos we’re made up
Of common ground
Can’t live without it
And it's time to get
Down, down, down, down, down
You are what you eat
And you are what what you eat eats
And you’re even what what what you eat eats eats
And it repeats, it repeats, it repeats.
Down, down, down
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6. |
Egg & Cheese Muffin!?
01:57
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INGREDIENTS:
Muffin: Enriched bleached flour (Wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) Water, yeast, contains two percent or less: Wheat gluten, salt, dough conditioners (Azodicarbonibide, Datem, Ascorbic Acid) High fructose corn syrup, sugar, soybean and/or cottonseed oil, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate added to prevent spoilage, distilled vinegar, yellow corn meal, natural and artificial flavours, cirtric acid, fumaric acid, soy flour.
Cooked Egg Patty: Whole eggs, water, egg yolk, soybean oil, nonfat
dry milk, modified corn starch, potassium sorbate (preservative), monosodium phosphate, salt, xanthum gum, natural and artificial
butter flavor [butter (cream, milk), partially hydrogenated soybean
and cottonseed oil, soybean oil, lipolised butter oil and natural
and articifial flavours], sodium acid pyrophosphate, nisin preparation (preservative), citric acid, soy lecithin.
Pasteurised Process Cheddar Cheese:
Cultured milk, water, cream, sodium phosphate, salt,
sorbic acid (preservative), vegetable colour
(annatto, paprika extract), enzymes.
Contains wheat, eggs, milk and soy.
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7. |
Eatin' Weeds
03:11
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Did you ever think a weed
could be something you can eat?
Let me tell you bout some eatin’ weeds I know
You can munch them all day long
While you’re singing this weed song
Cos they’re growing almost everywhere you go
I’ve been known to succumb to nasturtium
Root of dandelion drying for my tea
I’m gonna pluck myself some chickweed
And sprinkle it with flickweed
I’ll even add some seaweed
if I’m living by the sea
Did you ever think a weed
could be something you can eat?
Let me tell you bout some eatin’ weeds I know
You can munch them all day long
While you’re singing this weed song
Cos they’re growing almost everywhere you go
Well nothing makes me whistle
like a salad with milk thistle
Rockin’ rolla gotu kola in the lawn
Yeah I ramble in the brambles,
leaning over for the clover
If I lived with you your weeds would be all gone
Where it’s wetter you can bet I’ll
Cook me up some stinging nettle
It tastes better with some feta in a pie
Or else I may just settle
for some sorrel or some fennel
C’mon why don’t you just give them all try?
Cos did you ever think a weed
could be something you can eat?
Let me tell you bout some eatin’ weeds I know
You can munch them all day long
While you’re singing this weed song
Cos they’re growing almost everywhere you go
Just because it’s called a weed
doesn’t mean that it is bad
Find out if it can feed you
or do something that is rad
Because a weed is any plant
that grows really really well
So well it make some people rant
‘n rave ’n swear ‘n curse ’n yell
But did you ever think a weed
could be something you can eat?
Let me tell you bout some eatin’ weeds I know
You can munch them all day long
While you’re singing this weed song
Cos they’re growing almost everywhere you go
Well, they're growing almost everywhere you go
Yeah, they're growing almost everywhere you go
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8. |
Plastic!
02:52
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There’s this stuff that’s everywhere
I can see it right here and over there
It comes from deep below the ground
And we spend a lot of time just spreading it round
I’m talkin’ bout plastic
It’s not fantastic
Cos it never ever goes away
Don’t wanna use it
We’ve got to lose it
Because otherwise it’ll be here to stay
I had this friend who got a snack
That came all wrapped up in a plastic sack
I said ‘Dude! Just nude your food!’
If it comes in plastic, take it back
Because plastic
It’s not fantastic
And it’s always gonna cost more cash
Don’t wanna use it
We’ve got to lose it
Cos it always ends up in the trash
What can you do instead of wrapping up your food in plastic?
You can refuse and say “Pretty pretty please don’t bag it”
Get a water bottle made of metal take it, make it a habit
Cos we don’t wanna end up on a desert planet swimming in plastic
Because plastic
It ain’t fantastic
And we’ve got a load of better ways
Don’t wanna use it,
We’ve got to lose it
C’mon, make today a no plastic day!
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9. |
Arabella
04:00
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They call me Arabella Isa Brown
I’m a chicken from the baddest part of town
They locked me up with seven million hens like me
In a big smelly egg laying factory
But one day along came someone like you
And let me tell you just what they did do
Got me out and took me away
It was the first time I’d seen the light of day
I was a free chicken
A free range chicken!
They took me home and gave me my own patch
I had to learn just how to peck and scratch
I was so happy, I just had to express
I could finally provide a bit of chicken-ness!
I was a free chicken
A free range chicken!
When I say ‘Bok’, you say ‘Begerk!’
When I say ‘scratchin’ you say ‘dirt!’
Now let me see you scratch, c‘mon get to work!
So ever since the day I came on the scene
I’m way more than just an egg-laying machine
Fluff the ground, eat the bugs, scratching the weeds
Do my bit of do to give the soil a feed
Cos I’m a free chicken. A free range chicken!
Now I’m a very happy hen indeed
Got food ‘n room to move ‘n everything I need
So come on now, be a chicken too
So you can see that you’re like me and I’m like you
Be a free chicken. A free range chicken!
Express your chickenness!
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10. |
Mycelium Around Ya
02:48
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People say I’m a fun guy
but that’s more than what I am
you can call me Fun Gus
come underground to my pad to jam
There’s not mushroom down there,
But we’ve got mycelium
I wanna wrap mycelium around ya
Til super-kingdom come
I wanna wrap mycelium around ya
wrap mycelium around ya
wrap mycelium around ya
Well you know funghi like me
need a bit of fun gal company
I’m gonna decompose you a love song
‘Symbiosis’ in the key of G
And when I party,
you know I love to break it down
Eatin dead wood tastes so good.
And you know I’m gonna share it round
I wanna wrap mycelium around ya
wrap mycelium around ya
wrap mycelium around ya
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11. |
Break It Down
02:45
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Break it down
Get it back in the ground
Cycle it round
that green and brown
Break it down
If it was once alive
Make your garden thrive
High five!
Down it breaks
In a scrap layer-cake
Pile it up high
Then let it bake
Give it some air
but don’t let it dry out
Every now and then
fluff it about
Everything is always
falling apart
There’s no need
to let it break your heart
Just break it down
Breaking down
Microbes goin to town
Getting their fix
til it’s all devoured
Broken down,
Time to feed your plants
Spread it right out
and do a little dance
Everything is always
falling apart
Might as well
just give it all
a brand new start
and break it down
When the time is up
just break it down!
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Formidable Vegetable Denmark, Australia
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electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin' strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.
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