Hound's Tongue
You ain’t nothing but a hound’s tongue
Growin in the trail
You ain’t nothing but a hound’s tongue
Big green leaves without fail.

Dark blue flowers, not forget-me-nots
4 little nutlets stick in your socks.
You will host the veined white butterfly
Arf arf hounds tongue,
You’re a friend of mine.


MUSHROOM MEDLEY MELODY

Tune: “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Kiss Me Kate (Rollicking)
Words: Silvia Lange 2007

Brush up your mushrooms
Start sighting (citing) them now
Brush up your mushrooms
Though so many I don’t know quite how

I was dating a nice fellow named Willis
When seduced by that Slippery Jack Suillus

I nibbled the fringe on a Stropharia
In hopes it would cure my malaria

We dribbled some milk from a Lacterius
If we die, do you think they will bury us?

Beware of the deadly Amanita
Don’t eat-a! Don’t eat-a! Don’t eat-a!

If you happen upon Witch’s Butter
“Trembling guts” is what you should utter

The elusive bright orange Chanterelle
I mutter, “Oh, damn! What the hell!”

You’re a queen if you find Boletus edulis
Its flavor is truly incredulous

Brush up your mushrooms
To Satan’s Bolete make a bow
Brush up your mushrooms
Like Simon we say, “Holy cow!”

Don’t touch the Slimy Gomphidius
It’s sticky! It’s icky! It’s hideous!

If you yearn to be a lovely black Venus
Feast on the Inky Cap Coprinus

Or maybe the Inky Cap Coprinus
Will it help to clear up your sinus

No! No! Not the Bleeding Mycena
I’m afraid it will give me anemia

On Elfin Saddle that’s Helvella
Take a Valkyrie ride to Valhalla

Brush up your mushrooms
Read David Arora right now
Brush up your mushrooms
And the Meanderers you will wow

Next potluck bring a dish of asparagus
Mixed up with some store-bought Agaricus

Brush up your mushrooms
And they’ll all kow tow
Brush up your mushrooms
Please stop me I’m going ka POW!
Brush up your mushrooms
Enow is enow is enow
Enow!


Wildflower Ramble Warble II

We love to go awandering all over Angel Isle
Don't touch this plant
'twill make you itch
'Twill make you curse and wail

Poison oak, Poison oak
Leaves of red, leaves of green, green, green, green, green
Poison oak, Poison oak
Three leaves of red or green

We love to go awandering up the Sunset Trail
And as we hike identify the flowers that we hail

Hound's tongue, Forget-me not
Hounds tongue, Forget-me-not, not. not. not. not, not
Hound's tongue. Forget-me-not
Blue Hound's tongue. Forget-me-not

We love to go awandering through the fields of grass
And as we hike identify the flowers in a flash

Mule ears, hee haw
Mule ears, hee haw, hee haw, hee haw, hee haw
Mule ears, hee haw
Yellow Wyethia

We love to go awandering above the serpentine
And as we hike identify the flowers that are seen

Owl's clover, oh, so cute
Owl's clover, it's a hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot
Owl's clover, it's so cute
Little purple and white birdies

We love to go awandering along the Fire Road
And as we hike identify the flowers that are showed

Buttercups, glistening gold
Buttercups, glistening gold, gold, gold, gold ,gold, gold
Buttercups, glistening gold
Ranunculus californicus

May 2006