[Verse 1] The school asked for a garden bed Along the painted playground wall We measured ten feet with a string And called it plenty for us all Then every child brought seeds from home In little packets, big and small My neighbor stared at all those bags And went to fetch more boards from his hall [Pre-Chorus] We moved the edge another yard And made a path for muddy boots [Chorus] One more row of sunflowers One more golden place to grow Tiny hands and dusty knees Seeds tucked into crooked rows Water on a Tuesday morning Count the leaves and watch them rise One more row of sunflowers Watch that little patch come alive [Verse 2] A boy made charts for every stem And wrote their heights in careful rows One said, as tall as our principal Who stopped to check and found it close One flower faced the chain-link fence No matter where the others leaned The kids called him the watchman And saved him on their garden team [Chorus] One more row of sunflowers One more golden place to grow Tiny hands and dusty knees Seeds tucked into crooked rows Water on a Tuesday morning Count the leaves and watch them rise One more row of sunflowers Watch that little patch come alive [Instrumental - banjo and fiddle, eight bars] [Bridge] In August we saved seeds in envelopes And labeled them for next year's class My neighbor brought still more boards Said, better make the garden last [Final Chorus] One more row of sunflowers One more golden place to grow Tiny hands and dusty knees Seeds tucked into crooked rows Water on a Tuesday morning Count the leaves and watch them rise One more row of sunflowers Watch that little patch come alive [Outro] The watchman kept his eye on traffic Till the teacher took his seeds inside.
