Turnbull and Screwt
Turnbull and Screwt meandered across the garden
A paradise they shared with hungry cottontails
Winds blew through tulips planted long ago
Meanwhile back on the farm, the husband gathered seeds
Turnbull and Screwt spent their day like any other
Gathering colored stones to place around the hedge
Screwt grew tired and laughed at all the poppies
Meanwhile back on the farm, the tractor wouldn't start
Screwt ate his lunch before he finally had a plan:
To draw chalk lines around holes he might someday dig
Turnbull then scoffed but added his best stones
Meanwhile back on the farm, the wife just had a child
A rabbit hopped past all the work that had been done
While they tiptoed back to a mushroom on the hill
Where they stood silently as gnomes should do
Meanwhile back on the farm, the television glows
Meanwhile back on the farm, the family never knows
Songfacts: Turnbull and Screwt was inspired by two garden gnome statues I found in Miner's Hardware in Arroyo Grande, CA. I named the gnomes and brought Turnbull up with me to my home. I left Screwt in AG in my mother's garden. The concept of Turnbull and Screwt was based around the idea of two inseparable things becoming separated. In this song Turnbull and Screwt lead their lives in parallel in a garden on some family's farm.
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