Gotta keep movin, gotta keep groovin

Gotta take care, gotta beware

Gotta take time and make up our minds

To live in fear or get in gear!

It's a mixed up planet, a crying piece of granite

Broken and scarred but it's our back yard

And if we really care we'll clean up the air

Create fields to roam, cause the world's our home

Lord bless our souls as the world unfolds

Let the children know there's room to grow

In the new rebirth of our Mother Earth

In the new rebirth of our Mother Earth

Gotta keep movin, gotta keep groovin

Gotta take care, gotta beware

Gotta take time and make up our minds

To restore this world to a Mother of Pearl

Restore this world to a Mother of Pearl!

(c) (p) Mary C. Hargreaves

Wild and free

Yet so close to me

A miracle

Called chickadee

Little bird

Sweetest song

Brightest white

And black belong

To this childlike

Feathered friend

Who stands so brave

Through seasons of Maine

A day cannot go by

Without a passing word

To my little

Chickadee bird

(c)(p) Mary C. Hargreaves

Oh ukulele

You are magic

Sweet soprano

Sing your song

Oh ukulele

Strings of joy

Brighten my day

With your charm

(c) (p) 2010 Mary C. Hargreaves

One day I went up to Moosehead Lake, pitched a tent and stayed up late

Got up early with the sun, ate some donuts one by one

Jumped inside my new canoe, then checked out the mountain view

Slowly started to paddle out, from the distance heard a shout

Look over there! to my left in the shallow inlet there was a Moose! 

And then another! A family of them under cover

Eating green and slippery weeds, from the water under trees

Mejestic soft with velvet coat, they looked at me in my boat

As if to say

Hey! Have a nice day! I returned the look and went my way

Couldn't have been a nicer day on Moosehead Lake

One day in Maine

(c)(p) 2010 Mary Christine Hargreaves

Big black bear you don't scare

Me in my yard, as you stare

I've seen you out there, how do you dare

Eat my birdseed with no care

Your coat is shiny black as night

You're big and round and got some height

I kinda like to watch you eat

then walk away on all four feet

Cause I know, I should beware

And not get friendly with YOU bear

I'll have to take away your treat

It's summer now the birds will eat

And you can travel on I'm counting

That you'll stay up on that mountain

Go on now, you've had your share

Eat my birdseed don't you dare

Big black bear

You don't scare

Better beware

Big Black Bear!

(c) (p) 2010 Mary C. Hargreaves

REALLY

I found a bird's nest yesterday

And studied it's design

A gift of nature so unique

Destined to be mine

With careful hands I placed it

Where the reach would be the hardest

The bird who built this fragile nest

Was certainly an artist

Where are you little one, I ask

And what's the reason why

Inside a dream, a flash of wings

A peaceful "Here am I"

(c)(p) Mary C. Hargreaves

I look to the Light and see your grace

Like the sparkle in my mother's face

But then I see pain, grief, and hunger

Wondering what rule does this fall under

I look to the Light again and weep

Then feelings of comfort beckon deep

Are You there?

A hint of hope begins to blossom

New days will come and they'll be awesome

I look to the Light again feeling new

Because it's true

You're there!

(c)(p) Mary C. Hargreaves