The Role of Plants

The Role of Plants
To the tune of: "Little Brown Jug"

Insects, mammals, birds, and plants
Don't do what they do by chance.
With water, weather, earth, and air
They form the world that people share.

Chorus: Each one is an element
Of the same environment
Forms of life naturally
Live interdependently.

Plants keep the soil in its place.
The soil's richness they replace.
Food for all they provide,
And places animals live and hide.

Chorus: Each one is an element
Of the same environment
Forms of life naturally
Live interdependently.

Foods and fibers, fuel and wood,
Medicines that do us good—
Many things we need to live
Come from things the plants can give.

Chorus: Each one is an element
Of the same environment
Forms of life naturally
Live interdependently.

Plants make the food most creatures eat.
They give us shade from summer's heat
Produce the oxygen we share
Enrich the soil and keep it there.

Chorus: Each one is an element
Of the same environment
Forms of life naturally
Live interdependently.