Ask the Bees

[bnewman]

This song is part one of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Tell the Bees" by Talis Kimberley

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/ Am GAm - / - G - / AmC GF - / Am F - /

 

My mother keeps a little farm

Some beehives and an orchard

She never does me any harm

And yet her heart is tortured

 

She never speaks of father's death

He died when I was little

Some secret hung between them then

And left me in the middle

 

On some days mother cares for me

On others I'm abandoned

On days like that I tend the hives

The bees are my companions

 

/ " / " / " / Am G - /

 

Ask the bees why father went away

They'd tell me if they could

I think sometimes I've heard them buzz

And almost understood

 

When mother's heart is sick with grief

Kind words can never reach her

And sometimes on such days I see

Some kind of elfin creature

 

It helps with chores around the house

The laundry and the dishes

My mother never speaks of it

And I respect her wishes

 

Ask the bees just what that creature is

Ask the bees if things get better

In June of my eleventh year

An owl brought a letter...