We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Moan of the Mower Ridden Lawn

from Songs From the Bend in the River by Joe Flood

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Words by Edward Barrett, music traditional. Arranged and adapted by Joe Flood

lyrics

I seem a fine lawn, and my master is wealthy
He hired a smart gardener to mind me all day
Who keeps me quite bobby, good-looking and healthy;
For it the same fellow is getting good pay.
Methinks that without him I'd feel by far better,
With Dame Nature's garments, the tall grass and leaves;
When winter approaches they would be my shelter:
But now as I'm fixed, sir, the cold to me cleaves.

Appearances often are very deceiving:
The best side to London, they say over there.
We're outwardly smiling while inwardly grieving,
Some millions now stand on the verge of despair.
'Tis so with the lawns that like me are denuded,
Though seemingly happy we're buried in woe;
The rich in grand mansions have rudely intruded
Their machines and their menials our fleece have cut low.

O, hasten that day when we bare lawns are clothed
With our thick yield of grass and with Fall's fallen leaves;
It matters not then if rude winter is loaded
With frosts, tempests, snowdrifts, and peep-o'day thieves;
Unseen by those smashers we will be sound sleeping,
All safe and well cover'd 'til spring doth appear;
Not like as we now are in nakedness weeping,
And wishing that death came our days to end here.

credits

from Songs From the Bend in the River, track released April 12, 2015
Joe Flood, vocal, mandolin, bass; Mark Herschler, guitar

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Joe Flood image

Joe Flood New Haven, Connecticut

Joe Flood is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music, among them The Band, Blues Traveler, Dr. John, Bottle Rockets, Laura Cantrell, Eric Andersen, Happy and Artie Traum, Jim Weider, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Jono Manson, and the list goes on! Please visit www.joefloodmusic.com for more information. ... more

contact / help

Contact Joe Flood

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Joe Flood, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now