Beans Talk

Beans Talk
by John Forster & Tom Chapin
© 2011 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

When you're in the White House Garden,
You see a lot of things,
You meet the Press, you're in the public eye.
You're lionized by statesmen,
Fertilized by kings.
It seems history is always passing by…

I'm a beanstalk in Michelle Obama's garden,
When she's talking food,
I'm right there at her side
As we work to get third graders
To eat less fried potaders
And try some vegetables they've never tried.

I'm a beanstalk in Michelle Obama's garden,
Hand-picked to be a very special thing;
A natural role model, not from a can or bottle,
Who gets served to Queen Elizabeth or Sting.

I'm BFF with Sasha and Malia,
A hero to the K through 7 set.
It's lovely to be needed
And it's heaven to be weeded
To be treated with organic mulch, and yet

For plants like me
Who choose to serve their country,
We sometimes lie awake real late at night
Feeling sad for vegetation
Out there across the nation
That's suffering from aphids, drought or blight.

There's no higher call
Than serving in the Garden,
A member of the few, the proud, the Greens.
As we try to change the way
That kids eat every day
And their strange ideas
Of what nutrition means.
Michelle has talked the talk,
Now we must stalk the stalk
And trust it's more than just a hill of beans.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Give Peas A Chance CD.

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