Fruit of the Whys

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Title: Fruit of the Whys
Text: Kenan Schaefkofer, 2022
Tune: EXCELLENT QUESTION
Music: Kenan Schaefkofer, 2022
Key: F major
Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain
Date Added: 2022/05/12

Lyrics

The Whys as a fam'ly seem odd at first glance,
They're farmers attempting to kill all their plants.
When harvest day comes, after all that abuse,
the veggies surviving can really produce!

  Oh, how do the Whys grow whatever they do?
  An excellent question! Here's what they'll tell you:
  We flood in the night and we burn in the day.
  In evening and morning we're hacking away.
  We suffer no beet leaf to stay past its prime,
  or give tender stems just a little more time.
  Yes, some will survive, but we know not yet which!
  The ones that do, thrive, and have made us quite rich.
  With respect to all farmers, regarding their crops,
  too many collapse when the pampering stops!

The Whys sow with each seed a kernel of doubt.
They trust a few neighbors, but never a sprout,
cause folk round these parts grow the darndest of things,
but Whys plant a seed just to test what it brings!

  Oh, how do the Whys grow whatever they do?
  An excellent question! Here's what they'll tell you:
  We flood in the night and we burn in the day.
  In evening and morning we're hacking away.
  We suffer no beet leaf to stay past its prime,
  or give tender stems just a little more time.
  Yes, some will survive, but we know not yet which!
  The ones that do, thrive, and have made us quite rich.
  With respect to all farmers, regarding their crops,
  too many collapse when the pampering stops!

An oak tree, unyielding twohundred years back,
was finally felled after many a whack.
You might think it cold, but they shed not a tear.
The stump made a bed for new growth to appear!

  Oh, how do the Whys grow whatever they do?
  An excellent question! Here's what they'll tell you:
  We flood in the night and we burn in the day.
  In evening and morning we're hacking away.
  We suffer no beet leaf to stay past its prime,
  or give tender stems just a little more time.
  Yes, some will survive, but we know not yet which!
  The ones that do, thrive, and have made us quite rich.
  With respect to all farmers, regarding their crops,
  too many collapse when the pampering stops!

A guy once came by selling Magical Stalk™.
The Whys took one look and said, "That's just a rock!
Unliving, unkillable, won't give a yield.
It's not worth the space it would take in our field!"

  Oh, how do the Whys grow whatever they do?
  An excellent question! Here's what they'll tell you:
  We flood in the night and we burn in the day.
  In evening and morning we're hacking away.
  We suffer no beet leaf to stay past its prime,
  or give tender stems just a little more time.
  Yes, some will survive, but we know not yet which!
  The ones that do, thrive, and have made us quite rich.
  With respect to all farmers, regarding their crops,
  too many collapse when the pampering stops!

To be like the Whys, you must take things apart.
To challenge my story's a great place to start!
If this herbal analogy withers and dies,
I still think it's true you'll find truth in the Whys!

  Oh, how do the Whys grow whatever they do?
  An excellent question! Here's what they'll tell you:
  We flood in the night and we burn in the day.
  In evening and morning we're hacking away.
  We suffer no beet leaf to stay past its prime,
  or give tender stems just a little more time.
  Yes, some will survive, but we know not yet which!
  The ones that do, thrive, and have made us quite rich.
  With respect to all farmers, regarding their crops,
  too many collapse when the pampering stops!