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Reduce Reuse Recycle

from Backyard Garden by Earthworm Ensemble

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    This is our second release, 13 songs about backyard gardening, moles and coyotes, fish consciousness, composting, dinosaurs and meteors, the jet stream, ladybugs, and never giving up!

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Singer Denny is also known as King Kukulele, and he wanted to do a Hawaiian style song about recycling, so we did! We all recycle, but did you know about reduce? Reuse? It's easy!

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On a western shore in Hawaii
A little barefoot girl spied something shiny in the water
Said her daddy dear
That's the plastic gyre
A billion floating bottles
And broken toys

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Said the little girl
Daddy who made this mess? I
t was you and I, oh daughter
I must confess
Every time we use
Something plastic like a bottle
We've got to try
A little harder

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Little daughter:

Everyone knows about recycling
It's something we all do
Save every can, every bottle, paper, magazine
Put it in the bin that's blue or marked recycling

But did you know about reuse?

Well . . .
Take an old Chuck Taylor high top sneaker
Fill it with soil from your compost bin
Drop in seeds, add a little water
Two weeks later new life begins
Tomato, potato, rosemary, oregano

A tire is a swing
A bottle is a piggy bank
French fry oil is gasoline
(well, technically it's more like a diesel)

But did you know about reduce?

Well . . .
We'll get two more years out of our trusty old Chevy
See the world from the window of a train
Let's turn off the lights
Turn off the TIVO
Ride our bikes
Get a barrel for the rain

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Said the little girl
Daddy, take my hand
Every little thing is going to be all right
My generation
Has got a lot to do
We're gonna try a whole lot harder

Reduce, reuse, recycle
Reduce, reuse, recycle

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from Backyard Garden, released April 28, 2015

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Earthworm Ensemble Los Angeles

Earthworm Ensemble features the best in SoCal musicianship and songwriting: members of I See Hawks In L.A., Dwight Yoakam, Aman Folk Ensemble, and Double Naught Spy Car.

We sing songs about the earth and keeping earth green: buffalo migration, recycling, ladybugs, dinosaurs, coyotes and moles!

We are featured performers at Stagecoach, Kidspace, Skirball, McCabes, and many outdoor festivals. ... more

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