Honeybird

Jul. 12th, 2020 05:05 pm
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A suggestive love song from a flower to her pollinator, or (as we say) "the birds and the bees".

lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

listen to this song

/ G - C G / C G C D / 1st / C G D G /
 
Spring is here with its fragrance wafting
Like love aloft on the laughing breeze
Weaving me visions of colors dancing
The fair romancing of birds and bees
 
/ C - G - / C - G D / " / " /
 
My heart is given, I'll take no other
Though well I know we shall never meet
O, bring me news of my distant lover
And your reward shall be sure and sweet
 
Honeybird, fly to my open window
And drink your fill of my honeyed breast
Tell me the name of the one who sent you
The name of the one that I love the best
 
Others before you have come to see me
But none of them whispered my lover's name
My flowing nectar I gave them freely
But into my bosom they never came
 
Honeybird, light on my waiting finger
And I will treat with you, taste for taste
My lover's fragrance, O, let it linger
Though well I know you must go in haste
 
Others have come here to ply their treasure
But none of them carried my love's perfume
I offered them honey in equal measure
But none of them ever came near my womb
 
Honeybird, go now and share your beauty
With other lovers in other fields
Well and true you have done your duty
Now I must nurture its precious yield
 
Grow, my child, the sap is streaming
Drink deep the summer and ripen slow
And all the while there'll be time for dreaming
Of all of the honeybirds you shall know

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