Life Grows On

Life Grows On
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Springtime, we plow the field. Life grows on.
Long furrows made to yield. Life grows on.
Seeds dropped into the soil,
Tended with love and toil.
Life grows on and on and on.

Rain falls and splits the seed. Life grows on.
Seeds drink the life they need. Life grows on.
Shoots find the sun-drenched days,
Fields turn a new green haze.
Life grows on and on and on.
Life grows on. Life grows on.
Life grows on and on and on.

Leaves sprout on plant and tree. Life grows on,
Blossoms attract the bee. Life grows on.
Buds fall and fruit is born,
Beans, barley, pumpkin, corn,
Life grows on and on and on.

Summer rain, summer sun, summer heat
Work their magic, give us food to eat
Ripening on branch and stalk and vine.
Pick what’s sweet and ripe and grown
Gather all that we have sown,
Harvest always comes in its own time.

And in time fields are stripped and bare, life grows on,
Plow it under, leave it there. Life grows on.
Wait for the spring and then
Plant all the fields again,
Life grows on and on and on.
Life grows on. Life grows on.
Life grows on and on and on.

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

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