"Don't Go Rollin' in the Chervil"
Channel: RainDagger Productions
Date: 25/07/2012

(Lyrics below)

"No herbicides, pesticides or other chemicals shall
 be used in road rights of way in Jefferson County, Washington."
 

We do petition for the following reasons:
 
--There has been a 33-year moratorium on spraying of herbicides in Jefferson County on all County roads.
--The Jefferson County Noxious Weed Control Board began spraying in 2010 without public knowledge or input.
--Port Townsend Bay, has been deemed ecologically sensitive for shellfish, salmon, amphibians, as well as humans.
--The state of Washington is in the process of restricting the use of pesticides (which includes herbicides) due to bee and pollinator colony collapse, salmon and other animal habitat destruction and human health concerns.
--Pesticides (including herbicides) have been found in Washington State watersheds and these chemicals have been found to be detrimental to human, animal and habitat health.

email: harmony23fem@aol.com if you want to support the petition drive for an Ordinance to stop
spraying pesticides on Jefferson County Roadsides.  
_____________________________________________________________

Don't Go Rollin' in the Chervil
Tune by Jack Reid, Lyrics by Mary Bradley
c. July 2012
1)
Well the hummin' birds and butterflies,
the kids that walk the roads,
old ladies pickin' berries, son,
and crickets, frogs and toads....
don't know the grass is toxic,
or that angle worms is done.
We use ta' pull and mow the weeds
in the fresh air and bright sun.
Chorus:
Don't go rollin' in the chervil.
Don't go rollin' in the hay.
They're full of poisoned ladybugs—
'Cuz of 'noxious weeds' they say.
Meanwhile all this hasty sprayin'
is takin' the bees away.
So don't go rollin' in the chervil.
Don't go rollin' in the hay.
2.
Organic farms is dyin.'
The water's dyin'too.
Ol' mother earth is cryin.'
Her friends are far and few.
Now, they swear they have to do it.
So they made a special gun.
They bend above the flower stems
and they kill 'em one by one.
Chorus:
3.
Now it leaves me with a question.
It rolls 'round in my ol' head.
why not just pull or mow 'em?
the flowers get just as dead.
Then all the little kingdoms
that make their homes around—
they'd still be alive and kickin'
in the happy healthy ground.
Chorus: