Formidable Vegetable - Grow Do It

Lyrics © 2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: G7 C7 E7 A7)

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

(Chorus chords: G7 C7 Cdim G7 Eb G7 E7 A7 G7 C7)

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 friends!

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: D7 G7 A7)

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 ‘aint 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

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: Gm6 D#7 D7 Gm6 D#7 D7 Gm6 Cm D7 Gm6)

You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata

I’m gonna eat you later, eat you later, eat you later

You’re no dud spud under mud, you’re unrelated 

Cos you’re my sweet p’tata

Well, I see you being all shriveled in my cupboard

Let me put you in the garden bed, I think you’ll love it

Gonna leave you 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 you, wash you, cook you, eat you for my supper 

My little sweet p’tata

You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata

I’m gonna eat you later, eat you later, eat you later

You’re my kind of dynamic accumulator, my little sweet p’tata

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 you later, eat you later, eat you later

You’re my savior with the flavor that I wanna savor

My little sweet p’tata

You’re my sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata, sweet p’tata

I’m gonna eat you later, eat you later, eat you later

Than a regular potato, you are so much greater.

My little sweet p’tata

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: Dm A7)

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

(Bridge chords: Gm Dm A7)

 

Well, let’s stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it inside a jar

Yeah, let’s stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it inside a jar

C’mon let’s stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff it inside a jar

C’mon stuff it, stuff it, stuff it, stuff 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

Lyrics ©2015 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: Fm Fm7 Fm6 Edim A#dim Edim Gdim C#dim G7 C)

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 you gotta just trust that upper crust

And maintain that good terrain from whence you came

(Chorus chords: Fm Eb C#7 G7 Caug / D7 C#7 C7 Fm)

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

It repeats, it repeats ,it repeats

It repeats, it repeats, it repeats

It repeats, it repeats

Down, down, down

Lyrics © A Big Industrial Food Corporation

(Chords: F Bb C)

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 flavors, citric 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, lipolyzed butter oil and natural 

and artificial flavors], sodium acid pyrophosphate, nisin preparation (preservative), citric acid, soy lecithin.

Pasteurized Process Cheddar Cheese:

Cultured milk, water, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, 

sorbic acid (preservative), vegetable color 

(annatto, paprika extract), enzymes. 

Contains wheat, eggs, milk and soy.

Eatin’ Weeds

Lyrics © 2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: C F7 C G G7 C C7 F F7 D7 G7 C)

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 eat 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 goes 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?

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

Now, 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 makes some people rant

And rave and swear and curse and 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

Yeah, they’re growing almost everywhere you go

Well, they’re growing almost everywhere you go

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: Gm Cm D7)

There’s this stuff that’s everywhere

Well, 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 talking ‘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!’

And 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 

(Bridge chords: Cm Gm GmM7 Gm7 GmM7 / Adim D#dim F#dim Cdim)

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

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: C5 C F7 Adim G7 C5 C F7 Adim C5 Baug)

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

(Chorus chords: F7 C F7 G G7)

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!’ 

Bok, begerk, bok bok, begerk

When I say ‘scratchin’ you say ‘dirt!’

Scratchin’, dirt, scratchin’ 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 chicken-ness

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: A Bm7 C#m7)

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 fungi like me 

Need a bit of fun-gal company

I wanna decompose you a love song

‘Symbiosis’ in the key of G

And when I party

You know I love to break it down

Eating dead wood tastes so good

And y‘know I’m gonna share it round

I wanna wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap my-silly-arm around ya

Yeah I wanna wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap my-silly-arm around ya

Gonna wanna wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap mycelium around ya

Wrap mycelium around ya

Lyrics ©2016 Charlie Mgee

(Chords: Gm7 Cm6 F7+5 Gm7)

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 break

In a scat layer cake

Pile it up high

Then let it bake

Give it some air

But don’t let it dry out

And every now and then

Fluff it about

(Chorus chords: D7 G7 C7 F7 Gm7)

Everything is always 

Falling apart

There’s no need 

To let it break your heart

Just break it down

Breaking down

Microbes going 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

I said break it down

C’mon break it

Well, when the time is up 

just break it down