Cant divine t'wat he's referring?  Ask the one-eyed milkman. He's lookin' for a mouth that cannot bite.

Mangoes and peaches -- nature's tufted treasures!

How do you want them?
Jellyroll or a donut?
A pie for the oven in the house under the hill.  Lip-smackin' good.

Playing the two-finger tango brings a vertical smile to old mossy face.
Bruce even sings and whistles in the dark when he eats out.

Mango in Her garden She Has

Master (Mango) Yoda

she's got a what in her garden? A Mugro? ;)

Just the right amount of semi-trippy for finishing up the cube's day's work.

A Mystery Mango in her garden?  Obviously no Platonic Papaya, that fruit.  Isn't there a Kama Sutra practice known as "Peeling the mango"?

 Cynaera wrote: 

 

I,ve folowed BC for many years and he never dissapoints. This isnt one of his best but he constantly re-invents himself

Time for a Mango Smoothie...

Very tasty cover art.

very cool
i'm digging the mideast rhythms and the original tree

Wow, the instrumentation in this is outstanding! Especially that Asian-sounding guitar doing its own little dance throughout the song....and the nuance of the backing vocalist is wonderful.

I guess it takes all kinds to make a world, but sometimes, I understand why some species of females eat their young. 

 dillydoo wrote: 
Hey dilly, you must be like 4 years old and have the entire Beavus and Butthead DVD collection.

Yes!

kerr wrote: B U M P W O R T H Y

 SkyTyper wrote: 
The mango isn't in "the" garden, it's in "her" garden.  

I prescribe 3 years of pop culture and/or lit theory classes.

This song is about a woman's *ahem* genitalia, and how very much Bruce admires her.  It's very romantic, and not meaningless at all.  

 Verpeiler wrote: 

Stop it!  Get out!  You can't hav'a da mango!

Out of all the excellent Bruce songs, this one? 

Fire bad, tree pretty. I just love the song. I know the sexual connotations, and they're duly noted in the back of my brain, but the song would be sensual if he'd just hummed the words, or done it as an instrumental. The mood, the music, the beat.... Yum....

I love songs like this.  Mango? In the garden?  That's it?  So astonishingly meaningless that it elevates all other music. If there was not bad music there could not be good music.

"parallel worlds when the sun goes down,
the atmosphere grows hotter"......

Beautiful segue from the Cello Song... Bravo!    

dillydoo wrote:
For the mango...in her garden

MANGO!

 lawman wrote: 
Very funny.

I like Bruce Cockburn, but this is definitely not a song I would have chosen to play from him.  This is one of those songs that, if I hadn't already known of him for some time, I would not bother looking up any further info.

I could hear Zero 7 covering this with Jose singing...

Just silly.

I think — I'm guessing here — I think she's got a mangle in her garden.  (Or is it a mango? He doesn't say it often enough for me to tell.)