Sung to "My Favorite Things"
Catalogs breeding and seedlings are sprouting
Weeds have arisen and beds are a-calling
Spring has erupted and bitten us all
There's so much to do here - Hope I'm done by this fall!
Veggies and flowers are begging attention
grass isn't growing - but it's worth a mention
planning and plotting a new summer scene
there's so much to do here - I'm ready to scream!
Pansies to dead head and crocus to divide
shrubs that need trimming and mulches to provide
bugs to be vanquished and compost to turn
there's so much to do here - must avoid a sun burn!
When the bugs bite
When the weeds thrive
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my gardening things
And then I don't feel so bad!
Filk by Tamena
Found via LJ's Gardening community
That's good! What does filk mean?
Posted by: Kathy | April 07, 2006 at 07:23 AM
Hmmm... Gosh. Off the top of my head, a filk is sort of a folk song, that borrows it's melody - and offtimes much of it's humor - from an old standard or current pop song.
Wikipedia says that I'm revealing another of my hobbies - science fiction conventions - by my use of a word that arose out of that genre. Filk, Wikipedia entry.
From the same article, a quote: "We have taken our right to be creative and to literally "play" in the best sense of that word."
- Sally Childs-Helton
Play, it's as good for the soul as the dirt under nails from a garden!
Posted by: jenn | April 07, 2006 at 10:59 AM
Okay, so what you are saying is the new words to this old tune were written by Tamena, but you found it through the LJ Gardening community. Now I understand what I need to know, and learned a new word, to boot.
Posted by: Kathy | April 07, 2006 at 11:23 AM
That's great and I can't get it out of my head now! I like the new word, 'filk'. "When the bugs bite, When the weeds thrive"...
Posted by: Judith | April 07, 2006 at 09:14 PM
That is really very clever! And so, so true....about so much to do!
Posted by: cyndy | April 10, 2006 at 08:08 PM