Lisa Biales: MUSIC
Where The Buckwheat Blooms
(Lisa Biales)
©2006 Lisa Biales BMI
This song is skipping around the world and hit #32 on the International Folk Radio charts in 2006 and #47 in 2007. A story about my mom when she was a child growing up in Albany, Ohio on a farm in an old log cabin.
She came to town when the buckwheat bloomed
Golden sunset fields of sweet perfume
On an old fruit wagon that worked the harvest moon
Where the buckwheat blooms
Two old grey horses worked the fields that year
Her shepherd Rex played with a blinded mare
A simple life was heaven beyond compare
Where the buckwheat blooms
Her daddy never kept a job very long
Guess he went drinkin’ all the time
Her mama worked a soda fountain grill
It was all she could do to make a dime
One balmy evening at the end of June
A bill collector hummed his haughty tune
Too bad she had to leave that place so soon
Where the buckwheat blooms