Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener

16 Aug 05 - 02:04 PM (#1543292)
Subject: Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener
From: Haruo

On the liberal Christian blogsite "Sarahlaughed.net" (Dylan's Grace Notes: Music) the hostess, Sarah Dylan Breuer, writes:

a song going through my head

There's a song going through my head (long story ... maybe I'll post on it sometime) from Christian camp days, and the chorus to it went like this:

If the grass is greener on the other side
it's only 'cause they feed it and you let yours die
If there's a fence in the middle and a gate so wide,
BEWARE!
If the grass is greener on the other side

I wish I could remember the verses, as the chorus strikes me tonight as one of those rare instances of a modern praise-chorus type song (by which I do NOT mean Iona Community music -- that's its own category, in my mind) with a message worth remembering (in contrast to songs that are pretty much just cheesy and unhelpfully romantic top-40 songs with "baby" or "darlin'" changed to "Jesus").

Anyone out there remember it? Would it help to know that I learned it at the Forest Home conference center in Forest Falls, California?

A friend on Thinking Baptists posted

Hey, Hauro: Have you ever heard this?

If the grass is greener on the other side
it's only 'cause they feed it and you let yours die
If there's a fence in the middle and a gate so wide,
BEWARE!
If the grass is greener on the other side

I's supposed to be a camp song.

Joel

as if it was his own idea ;-)

I've never heard it, but thought maybe someone on the Mudcat...

Haruo

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17 Aug 05 - 02:39 PM (#1544209)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener
From: Haruo

refresh

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20 Aug 05 - 12:26 PM (#1546334)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener
From: Haruo

Forest Home Conference Center? refresh

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21 Aug 05 - 01:04 AM (#1546429)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener
From: masato sakurai

On the proverb, see THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE: AN AMERICAN PROVERB OF DISCONTENT.

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21 Aug 05 - 07:42 PM (#1546749)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Beware if the grass is greener
From: Haruo

Interestingly (I think), Google shows nearly half again as many hits for "grass greener hill" than for "grass greener fence"; but that's a different song...

Haruo

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