Album Notes

A gorgeous blend of smooth vocal harmonies, powerful string arrangements and grooving pedal steel, the Permie Song will get you singing along under the sun as you pull weeds and plant the next season's seeds!

Audiences have been loving the 'despair-empowerment' format, the gorgeous harmonies, and the joyful sing-along section in the outro. The Permie Song has been sung by a number of choirs, at Transition Towns workshops, around campfires, at fundraisers and in loungerooms across Australia.

About the Permie Song, Michelle says "Nearing the end of a 12 week course in Permaculture Design, I was so inspired that I wrote four short songs to share at the end of course skit night... From these short pieces, the Permie Song was born!"

The Permie Song Words:
When the sorry state of the world is getting to you
Apocalyptic prophesies seem more and more true
You're counting the trees as they fall to earth in twos (and tens of thousands)
And you're feeling despair and sorrow, sad and blue
And you're watching your toilet sucking down
Many gallons of water to the ocean
Far away from the dry, bare earth
There's just one thing that you can do
There's just one thing that you can do

Let's grow our own garden, many seeds we will sow
Dig the swales, mulch the earth and watch the worms frolic to and fro
Let's grow our own garden, restore the earth to whole
Harvest the rain, share the fruits and a community we'll grow

The chickens are working for us, they're the happiest of all
The worms are bumping and sliding, creating fertile soil
Our home is solar passive, in the winter it is warm
Our food forest abundant, this life we can transform!

Let's grow our own garden, many seeds we will sow
Dig the swales, mulch the earth and watch the worms frolic to and fro
Let's grow our own garden, restore the earth to whole
Harvest the rain, share the fruits and a community we'll grow

Care for the earth, care for the people
We can stand, use our hands,
Share food with this whole land...