Best Turnip Poems

A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't any feet.
Before you judge and criticize, 
    I beg your minds to wander.
To take a moment just...

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The lowly turnip
Earthy, fleshy
Roots falling from its eyes
Fed to  livestock
One of God’s root crops
Yet deemed  untasty
By most palates 

Carrots and potatoes
Receive accolades
Carrots in orange party dress
So crunchy and sweet 
Fit in the school child’s lunch box
Potatoes in russet  brown
Mashed, fried and frittered
Prized...

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Turnip Pie, why did I purchase you and try to lie?
Never once have you said  "Goodbye", now you sit here in this pan to cry.

I ate you once, but not again, now I sit here to scribe 'bout you with this pen,
Turnips I won't...

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Mr TURNIP AND Ms AUBERGINE
                             
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Turnip Greens

Yesterday times were hard.
In October '29.
The mills "cut out" depression came,
The economy declined.

Stocks fell down and rich men died.
Black Tuesday brought disaster.
They jumped from windows on that day,
Cause money was their master.

In the embattled south folks starved,
The barefoot masses cried.
Men rode the rails in...

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Old sour dour turnip man
He ruins as many parties as he can
Coming in with a meanness thick
Not liking any dances, joys or tricks

We see him coming and try to lock the door
We do not want to entertain him any more.
Old sour dour turnip man
Being as...

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We're all crazy men.., it's so..
Eat a rotten turnip if you said it would bring any luck.
Fall in love at the very first drop of a ... - well you should know..
just goes to show..,
if you can imagine that. 
  
We're all crazy men,...

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I love a radish in the springtime!
I love a radish in the fall!
I take my car and park it,
There at the farmer's market,
And buy out every radish stall!
If there’s kohlrabi, I’ll buy a few
A tasty turnip I will not eschew,
But I love a radish when...

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