Story Behind The Song
The Green Girl is a manifestation of spring who transmits life energy to everything--she is love, procreation, instinct, pain and beauty. This song was inspired by the mystical, poetic lyrics of the late Dave Carter.
Song Description
Folk anthm celebrating springtime and the feminine spirit of nature. Song about a changeling that is itself shifting back and forth between minor key in the verses and relative major in the chorus.
| Song Length |
2:47 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - Traditional |
| Tempo |
Fast (151 - 170) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Content, In High Spirits |
Subject |
Seasons, Femininity |
| Similar Artists |
Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Green Girl
Leafed-face elf of spring has spoken--leaving me like quaking aspen
Rooted deep but lightly shaking in the buffered breeze
She brings light and flights of fancy stolen from the god of dance
She flits and flies before my eyes and kisses all she sees.
Toad and swallow, rose and weed
Know the green girl?s every deed
On April wings at blazing speed
The green girl comes to me
Green girl tiptoes across my lawn--lifts the summer sun beyond
She stutters in the waking wind and shakes the berry vine
She of wine and she of sorrow, she of lovers in the meadow
She who promises tomorrow?s pleasures we will find.
Toad and swallow, rose and weed
Know the green girl?s every deed
She makes the sap veined pine tree bleed
As she comes to me
There is nothing I can teach her--bursts like bubbles if I touch her
Playful star I only see her when I look away
Braiding vines of twining creeper--blissful peaceful promise keeper
Bringing dreams to every sleeper of finding love some day
Toad and swallow, rose and weed
Know the green girl?s every deed
In every shoot and every seed
The green girl comes to me
© 2005 Greg Beattie