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Coffee Break: Growth

Vegetable Garden
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by Anna Weggel

June 09, 2020

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs about "growth" do you want to hear?

Ranging from backyard gardens to personal growth to systemic change, let's put together a set of music this morning for all of the growth happening (or that needs to happen) around us.

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Willie Nelson - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
The Byrds - I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician
R.E.M. - Green Grow The Rushes
Bobby Vee and the Strangers - Come Back When You Grow Up
The Move - I Can Hear the Grass Grow
David Bowie - How Does The Grass Grow
Prince - Money Don't Grow On Trees
The Vaqueros - Growing Pains