Tea Song, Blue Hills

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0jlRAttpAY

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Tea Song 

 

Turn on the tea and let it brew

        Ohhhhh 

I like six cups not one or two

        Mmmmmm 

Break out the cups and the honey too

        ...Ohhhhh.

And turn on the tea and let it brew

           Heeeeahhh

I don't care that she's left me

           Mmmmmm 

Just so long as the cupboard's full of tea

          Ohhhhhh 

My nerves are shakin' and my heart is breakin'

        Whoaaaaaa 

That's just because of all the tea I've taken

        Mmmmmmm 

The poor old Buddha turned into stone

        Ohhhhhh 

That's why I drink tea alone

         Mmmmmm 

Buddha's made of stone and his eyes are rubies

       Mmmmmm 

But his thoughts and dreams are distilled         in the tea

         Ohhhhhh 

I drink my tea and sit and dream

        Mmmmmm

I'll conjour up a leprechaun to dance        upon    the stage

      Ohhhhhhh

I'm drinking my tea and it's getting late

       Ohhhhhhh 

Thought I heard somebody pass my gate

      Oooooooh 

 

(Sometimes it not what you sing/poem

It's how ya sling it )

 ...Better yet ....

Track Info   Release

First Songs 

Artisan Michael Hurley

Year Released.    1964 

Catalog Number.  FW03581_105

Track Number.   5

Duration.      07:28  

https://folkways.si.edu/michael-hurley/the-tea-song/american-folk/music/track/smithsonian.

"Hurley's debut album, First Songs, was recorded for Folkways Records in 1963 

on the same reel-to-reel machine that taped Lead Belly's Last Sessions. "  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician)