There are spices and vegetables that you can grow Some are under the ground, some grow tall Though they all have their qualities, this you should know That the garlic is best of them all The Egyptians, Phoenicians, the Vikings and Greeks Babylonians, Danes, and Chinese On their voyages took enough garlic for weeks And their enemies died on the breeze There are spices and vegetables ... From Biblical times in all parts of the earth It has cured countless sufferings and ills If we understood what the garlic is worth We would throw out our poisons and pills There are spices and vegetables ... In Bulgaria's mountains and Russia's wide plains People live to a hundred years old For it's juice of the garlic that runs in their veins Oh it's worth twice it's weight in pure gold There are spices and vegetables ... With its selenium, germanium, allicin too It can fight off all types of disease So if you've got arthritis, TB, or the flu [or COVID!] Just say, "Peel me a garlic clove, please!" There are spices and vegetables ... Plant some cloves in your garden to keep away worms And the other bad things that kill plants If you're one of those people concerned about germs You could drop one or two in your pants There are spices and vegetables ...
recording: Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers (1979) [YouTube]
recording: Sally Rogers (2001) [YouTube]