The spring can be a deceptively pleasant time for modern people: We see the warmth coming back, plants and flowers returning, and hope for a coming summer. However, back when most people lived on local agriculture, it also was a bit of a nervous period, because that big pile of food you stored up in the fall is starting to get quite a bit smaller than it once was, and while you can probably make it through to the first bits of greenery coming up from the ground like spinach or asparagus, if you're going to have to go hungry this is the season where you might have to do it. And what's worse, you have to be really careful not to eat the seeds you're going to plant, which you'll be tempted to do when you're hungry, because if you do then the next harvest will be smaller just making things worse.
Musically, this is a fairly simple polka, although a bit more complicated harmonically on the old squeezebox than it might look at first. Lyrically, this isn't just about planting food, but also about finding new ways when the old ways stop working for you and there's nothing left to do but toss whatever seeds you can out into the world to see what thrives.
All works are copyright by yours truly, but may be distributed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0. That means, in short, you can use them yourself and your grove, and play the song to your heart's content both in private and in public, but must give credit where credit is due, and if you're planning on selling something involving this song we need to talk about that first.
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