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A song about a beautiful shared walled garden in Herefordshire, positioned between the Brecon Beacons and The Malvern Hills.

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I was headed South West off the M42 as the brow of the Malverns swept into view
Washed in pale sienna haze, the tincture of November days
When a thought leapt up on a sparrow hawk’s wing
And gave my heart this simple song to sing:

I know a place where the parsnips grow, the onions and potatoes and the tomatoes
Sun, rain, wind, hail, sleet or snow, the garden is the place where I like to go
Deep in the county of apples and hops, miles away from hyper-shops
Far removed from city thrills and spills, in the rain shadow of the Brecon Hills

Well I reckon I could go to a monastery to find peace of mind and equanimity
I could do Sudoku or Monopoly, but I’m too busy, busy, busy, busy:
busy lookin’ after my broccoli
Where the sparrow and the buzzard and the cuckoo calls, and I’m down on all fours
In my overalls, digging up last year’s root balls
With the missus whistlin’ fol-de-rols

In the winter I look forward to the mornings when, every year
the season comes round again: the nuthatch and the bullfinch and the Jenny wren,
and the cluckin' and the cacklin’ of the broody hen

Fellow gardeners, babes and blokes growin' everything from peppers to artichokes;
Pumpkin, aubergine, beetroot and marrow - whizzin up and down,
Round and round and round in squeaky, squeaky , rusty old wheelbarrows

Diggers and Dreamers all work as one, making hay in the sunshine and havin' fun;
Me, I'll go to any length to develop my upper body strength ‘Cos I know
a place where the parsnips grow, the onions and potatoes and the tomatilloes
Please don’t think I’m takin’ the piss - I’m just flying the flag for photosynthesis
Deep, deep in the county of apples and hops, miles away from hyper-shops
Far removed from city thrills and spills, in the rain shadow of the Brecon Hills.

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from The Oaks That Still Stand, released December 12, 2016

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Dave Carroll England, UK

Dave Carroll is a composer and singer-songwriter with wide experience in Classical, Rock and Folk music. Well known in Birmingham’s vibrant rock scene of the 1970s he was for many years a resident guitarist with The Royal Shakespeare Company, later co-founded the alternative folk trio 'Soundboard' and now composes, collaborates and occasionally performs in a little mountain town in Canada. ... more

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