Mushroom Song
Eva Hamer
C F C Mushrooms are not animals C F C But they are not plants F F#dim C A7 Mushrooms don’t have cell walls but they D7 G7 C Also don’t make plans Mushrooms have no chlorophyll They cannot eat sunlight Like plants they grow in soil And eating them’s alright (sometimes) E7 Lots of mushrooms are for food A7 Lots of plants are too D7 Animals don’t want to die G7 Neither, folx, do you Some mushrooms are called puffball Some are called stinkhorn All can be called toadstools And none of them were born |
Mushrooms are like fish because They both have gills are are not plants Mushroom aren’t like fish because they don’t feel pain or play Some mushrooms are like us because We have teeth and not gills No mushroom can be just like us Because we have free will E7 Yogis think they’re kind of gross A7 Because they grow on stuff that’s dead D7 Me I think you’re kind of gross G7 When you’re eating someone dead C F C Mushrooms are not animals C F C But they are not plants F F#dim C A7 Mushrooms don’t have cell walls but they D7 G7 C Also don’t make plans |