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Several years ago, I was visiting Alfred and Sarah and they said we were having chick pea curry for dinner. I said, "I love garbanzo beans!" They said, "What are garbanzo beans?" That's how this song was born.

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Garbanzo Song

I’m just a simple gal
who likes to eat her greens –
keep myself much to myself
while counting up my beans.
Ain’t read no fancy books,
no lessons have I learned.
But I got my finger on the pulse
where pulses is concerned.

How can a girl be so wrong?
I hardly had a bean
‘til you came along.

Cause there’s soya, pinto,
kidney, haricot,
black-eyed peas and mung.
Some of ‘em are broad.
Some of ‘em are green.
Boy, you should have seen
how some of ‘em run.
Dried beans, fried beans
coulda beans, shoulda beans.
Sometimes even swallow ‘em raw.
‘Til I met you I ain’t never done heard
of no garbanzo bean before.

I’m just the kind of girl
who likes to stay at home,
knitting fancy cushions
and eating what I’ve grown.
Couldn’t build a hill of beans
until you showed me how.
Won’t you tell me where has
my garbanzo been till now.

I guess it’s just my lesson learned.
You make this tin of beans
a whole new can of worms.

So this is what I’m gonna do:
overdose on cellulose
‘til all my beans come true.

credits

from The Wondarium – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI,
and Alfred John Hickling, Sweet Pea Music.

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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