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Queen Anne's Lace

from Plants Rock by Pete Moss

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lyrics

There was king and a queen and they were not in love
The king had gotten so mean the queen said enough
So she fell in love one of her staff
He was the castle joker and he made her laugh

One day the joker, sat the queen down
Said he had a plan to take the King’s crown
“I know of a plant with poison in its stem
Put some in his tea and he’ll be a has been”

The plant looked like an umbrella in the rain
Tiny bunches of white flowers made its shape
tall as a child it had leaves of green
It didn’t look rough but man it was mean

So the joker set out for the woods that night
And sure enough he saw a plant that looked right
An umbrella made of tiny bunches of white flowers
He trembled as he picked it, frightened of its powers

Then he spotted something that derailed his mission
It was another plant that matched his plant’s description
The leaves were not the same but he had another thought
One plant had a dot; the other did not

This dot was purple in the middle of flower
The joker went back and forth for an hour
He picked the purple dot one cause it was more hairy
And he always found: hairy things scary

Back at the castle, he gave the Queen the roots
The Queen ground them up into a juice
She stirred them in the tea that the King would have
With his evening meal of meat and yams

And so the King drank while the Queen looked on
And to her great surprise there was nothing wrong
In fact the King’s mood moved from mean to cheer
He said he felt better then he had in years

Then the king’s body felt a new correction
It turned out the plant had helped his digestion
So he let out a relieving moan
For the plant dissolved his kidney stone

From that day forth the King was a new guy
Was kind to all especially his wife
The Queen fell in love with the King again
The Joker and she went back to being friends

And you’d think that the joker was mad
He was for a bit he soon became glad
For he opened a successful stand
Where he sold, medicinal plants

The King drank the plant in his morning juice
The Queen wore the flowers on the laces of her shoes
And since “Anne” was the Queen’s namesake
Today we call the plant Queen Anne’s Lace

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from Plants Rock, released September 20, 2019

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