Southern Minnesota Tea Picking Songs, tea picking ditties, are mostly about love, for example, "Luring the Wood Chopper on the Opposite Slope" (recorded by the rhetorician Cold Pond Green Lotus):
The mountain's beautiful sister
The ten fingertips are busy with tea picking
Luring butterflies to fly
Luring bees to buzz and sing
The wood-chopper's brother is brightly heard
One love song for two people to sing
Singing butterflies and tea flowers together
Hey, a love song is sung by both of us
Singing tea flowers together with fragrance
Ah! >A love song is sung by two people
The butterflies fly in pairs
The tea blossoms are fragrant
Ah, a pair of golden phoenixes have flown out from the tea forest
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