My Buddy Called Holly (And Other Friends)

When Holly scrapes I feel my envy
But she makes me feel better
When I take her in drops at least four times a day
From a little bottle

Rocky Rose is wild and free
You know she is my favourite remedy
For those states of fear and apathy
That sometimes crawl up on me

Willow looks on wistfully
Before revealing her mystery
And a constitutional conspiracy
And she cries "Why me, why poor me?"

Heather talks incessantly
She keeps on telling me that she'll never leave
But I know she's only stalling me
Because she hates to be alone

Violet's wet and watery
She takes her holidays in a monastry
And she prefers to be alone
When you most want her

Vera is quite vain
She takes it all so so seriously
She loves to start an argument
And you'll never change her

Olive simply spins me out
She loves to spin me on her roundabout
She spins me round and round and round
Until I'm dizzy

My Jenny gently hesitates
She can easily feel despondant
She's afraid of spiders, flying and dying
And she doubts her own judgement

Chicory keeps a hold of me
She climbs like clematis and she drinks centuary tea
She bathes my wounds with the minimum of fuss
In agrimony and scleranthus

So as I swing around this garden
From the trees - the elm, oak, larch, beech and the aspen
Crab apples, cherries, ceratos, plums
And chestnut's lovely buds

Impatiently I flex my hornbeam
Hanging walnuts hot like black mustard seeds
Sucking honey and sowing wild oats amongst the gorse
And pining for the star of Bethlehem to come and rescue me

© 2008 RICHARD K ISAACS/ROCKSTONE RECORDINGS

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Songs - Feng Shui Birthday - Psalm 2068 - Little Righteous One -
Mystery - Crystal Ball - Solomons's Gold - Over You - Beginning -
My Buddy Called Holly(And Other Friends) - Big Green Blues -
Jamaican Herbsman/People Get Ready