Lyrics:

[Verse 1]**lf**Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times down the long black rows**lf**Then battled with the angry weeds so little seeds could grow**lf**Come summer Mattie pulled the snow from cruel and cutting bolls**lf**She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old**lf**Round and round the spinning wheel beneath Aunt Mattie''s boot**lf**She recalled the soil and cotton seeds and summer''s hopeful shoots**lf**Two winters spun out summer''s threads in rich and creamy folds**lf**And she had a bolt of cotton cloth when she turned ten years old**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds**lf**If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs**lf**If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl**lf**We''ll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world**lf****lf**[Verse 2]**lf**Indigo and lavender made up Aunt Mattie''s sky**lf**Remembering her childhood days she made the rustic dye**lf**The hour before the day would end it fed young Mattie''s dream**lf**She made indigo and lavender when she turned just fourteen**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds**lf**If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs**lf**If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl**lf**We''ll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world**lf****lf**[Verse 3]**lf**Aunt Mattie bends a thousand times down each patchwork row**lf**Piece by piece and stitch by stitch in fading candle glow**lf**The valley of the shadow cannot call her from her seams**lf**Until finishing her lifetime''s work she dies at seventeen**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds**lf**If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs**lf**If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl**lf**We''ll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world