Songwriting Challenge 2.
Four days, one percussion instrument, and as many voices as we like.

"George will write a song about a garden. He’s made everything grow, nurtured everything into life, slowly, through painstaking effort. However he knows that things out of his control could at any time destroy what he’s done, without any notice. He’s going to write about how that makes him feel. Up to him is whether it is about a literal garden, or whether it is a metaphor for something else entirely."

Check out the details of the challenge at www.georgeanddavewritesongs.com.

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The old man comes out in the morning
On my knees and working
Caring for the tender
And the not so sweet

A grey mist is carried
As I follow round the sneaky ivy
Keeping it together
Just the way I want it

How does it make you feel when your life is blown away?
And trees, they will tell you, are never too big to fall
How does it make you feel when promises die in the shade?
I don’t need an exit plan
I go on like it never happened

For a dozen years, I’ve grown and built a
City of my own with two hands
Let the seed find its own way
To heaven or home
Let the seasons come
And I’ll still be a happy old man


Ploughman's Lunch

George Begbie