My friend Henry told me that he found something out
Hush hush hush he said there is no reason to shout
All the food in the supermarket doesn’t really grow in there
Though it looks like it does, it never really does –
it grows far away from here

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It takes so many people to make my dinner plate complete
So many hands are working so that my family can eat
People working through the rain, through the long summer heat
So many talents needed so that my family can eat

I talked to the butcher and asked her where’d she get the meat
She said she ordered it from a cattleman who raises
cows, chickens and sheep
And then I asked about the salmon that looks so orange and bright
Turns out it came from a fisherman on a boat who fishes all day to get a bite

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I was feeling sorta tired but had questions left inside
I had to ask about the milk and the cheese that Papa
buys me every time
It’s true what they say about the milk and the cows
and how the milk becomes the cheese
Yeah I went to the farm to see the dairyman milking Bessie on his knees

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And what about all the tons of stuff that Papa buys me in cans?
Well that’s trucked in from a big ole place that’s run by many,
many, many hands

Well that’s what my friend Henry told me one December day
And now when I look at the food on my plate,
I think about it in a different way