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The trees they do grow high

from Sydney, Sydney by Bud Petal

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"The olives may now be picked
They lay waiting by the hill.”
Many a time I've said so to my child.
She's young but she's growing daily.

Father, dear father, do you not know what you ask?
If the settler on the hill sees my shadow cast,
Many an hour he will knock me all about.
He remains and he grows unruly.

Daughter, dear daughter, I know to where it is you're sent.
The olives must be picked, our livelihood sustained.
Many a time they’ve come on to our land.
They remain with no will of sharing.

Father, dear father, if you see fit.
Hebron this is not, nor is it a mountain of beasts.
I'll go to the checkpoint with my head held high.
I'm young but I'm growing daily.

One day I was looking beyond the dividing wall,
I spied the harvest with a hope for them all,
Many a time my daughter was there at work.
Oh, she's young but she's growing daily

At the age of thirteen, she was a married gal.
At the age of fourteen, a mother of a child.
At the age of sixteen, her grave it was dug.
Now I watch over her child as he is growing.

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from Sydney, Sydney, released February 2, 2019

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Bud Petal Sydney, Australia

Bud Petal’s music has been described as “cerebral art-folk”, “a true outsider, a freak-folk wunderkind”.

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