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True I was a gardener once upon a time |
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When the world was young and all the earth was mine |
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Mine to tend to to plough and to sow |
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Before mankind came and rendered all things low |
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And beauty was it's first name by this I would call |
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And ready the harvest for one and for all |
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The orchards and the wheat fields which could of fed the world |
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Were divided up like money and sold through human slaves |
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The rivers fresh the hillsides that had no need of name |
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Now ran red with the life blood and drunk with guilty shame |
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The gentle bough was broken and twisted out of shape |
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And who knows the consequences when the bough doth break |
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The mother soil which reared it's young now reared her angry head |
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And rain fell down like teardrops upon the flower beds |
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The blame for this I'm in no doubt is mine and mine alone |
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But so proud was I of my work I had to share it's growth |
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This true I was a gardener in the time before the flood |
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Now these green fingers of mine are stained by angels' blood |