Baba Brinkman - El Plantador

[Scooter]

This song can be downloaded directly by right-clicking on the following link. A left-click will probably stream the song directly through your browser:

http://www.replant.ca/peppermill/set1-0 ... ntador.mp3


You should also be able to download or listen to the song directly from within this Soundcloud link:




This song is from the “Hi and Ho, We Plant Trees” compilation on Peppermill Records. Thanks to Peter Krahn, the driving force behind Peppermill, for making this (and many other musical projects) come together, and also for giving permission to share this music publicly. And thanks to the artists who contributed to the "Hi And Ho, We Plant Trees" project, for making their music available to the planting community.

Learn more about Peppermill Records at: http://www.peppermillrecords.com

[Scooter]

I used this song (with the permission of Baba Brinkman) as the backing music to the 2009 Replant.ca Summer Memories planting video:

[L'Amour]

If someone wants to transcribe the lyrics and post them in this thread, feel free.

Believe me, I've been nagging PK to do that for years.

[Leon]

If someone wants to transcribe the lyrics and post them in this thread, feel free.

Believe me, I've been nagging PK to do that for years.

I'm crap at figuring out rap lyrics but here's my attempt, I'm sure there's plenty of mistakes and there are certain parts that I just couldn't even guess:

Intro

Freedom at birth has rooted me from the first
Leavin' the worst curses neutered to my feeling of worth
I'm being reimbursed for putting trees in the earth
So I'm grateful coz it's hateful when you're needin' the work
The seasons reverse and the spring bees  and the birds
Got a reason to sing bringing these seeds into birth
And sprouts pleasin' to nurse I'm surged like a fountain
Begin to burst up the dirt up in the mountain
I'm countin' the amount of the worth of all my poundin'
Running around I work the ground, my words resounding
Verses abound but the sound carries downwind
Drowned in the carriage round the area I'm pounding
Weight packing straight pounds around, breakin' back
And to make it happen I race down mounds of paper stacking
.... Is black and late night crazes is the best, I'm breakin' tracks
Makin K'Nex, wakin' to sex my aching breast never takin' less
Than makin ....., I aint paid to rest as any day can attest
I'm hatin' the stress but I'm lovin' the freedom
I'm shakin' the pesticide with gloves when I need 'em
I'm racing the rest, numbers above and I beat 'em
I'm makin' a mess I got mud up to my knees
And I'm shovin' the trees into where I dug and I squeeze 'em
And I'm duckin' No-See-Ums and other bugs and I'm bleeding
But under my breathing this is what I'm repeating:

I chant this to replenish like a sandwich when you're famished
Under bandages my hand is badly damaged but I'll manage
By the handle grip the brandished, my shovel as I plant this
Great expansive forces vanish where the planet has been branded
Trees get slammed into the slanted land with the frantic speed I dance with
Hand in hand sets up ........... 

I'm draggin' my feet, to get speed I shift gears
I fiercely lift my knees and my fatigue disappears
My sweat drips swiftly, my lips bleed and get smeared
Which I lick quickly coz it's the sea mixed with tears
Blocks take 6 years as I walk between trees
The slash is deep but .... Green leaves
My dreams lead and I seem to be fast asleep
I'm trapped in a deep trance but I plant actively
I stand half the seeds at the end of my last screef
Where my hand slaps the tree in the sand, that's just sweet
And ..... do not believe the feats I've had to pull
Rap .... knees, rags to wool, treebags full
I'm like a black sheep that's trapped meat, speed compatible
To pass me you have to be released by a catapult
And every word that I speak is auto-biographical
So follow all my patterns flagged with red tape
I shed weight with each microsite I impregnate
Mush-rated legs keep me upright to levitate
Up the block everyday but the rocks never break
I've got to measure space, do whatever it takes
Some nights I lie in bed awake and shiver and shake
But I never let a late night get in the way
Coz every second I waste is .... Instead of my pay
So when I've got to separate my head and escape from all the effort it takes
I just rap to meditate

I chant this to replenish like a sandwich when you're famished
Under bandages my hand is badly damaged but I'll manage
By the handle grip the brandished, my shovel as I plant this
Great expansive forces vanish where the planet has been branded
Trees get slammed into the slanted land with the frantic speed I dance with
Hand in hand sets up ........... 

Ending

[krahn]

nice work!

[Leon]

nice work!

Thanks, i think it's a great tune. Keeps my mind off the cold when cycling to school in the mornings.