{"id":905,"date":"2012-02-20T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=905"},"modified":"2012-02-20T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:47:40","slug":"mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-zennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2012\/02\/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-zennies.html","title":{"rendered":"Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Zennies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

President\u2019s Day off and I\u2019m getting a bit silly! Here\u2019s a new rendition of an old country classic. See the words below for a Zen sing along.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\nMama don\u2019t let your babies grow up to be zennies \nDon\u2019t let \u2019em fluff zafus and work them old koans \nMake \u2019em be doctors and lawyers and such \nMama don\u2019t let your babies grow up to be zennies \nThey\u2019ll never stay home and they\u2019re always alone \nEven with someone they love \nZennies ain\u2019t easy to love and they\u2019re harder to hold \nAnd they\u2019d rather give you a sutra then diamonds or gold \nNyo-e o\u2019kesa and old faded robes and each night begins a new day \nAnd if you don\u2019t understand him and he don\u2019t die young \nHe\u2019ll probably just drop away \nMama don\u2019t let your babies grow up to be zennies \nDon\u2019t let \u2019em fluff zafus and work them old koans \nMake \u2019em be doctors and lawyers and such \nMama don\u2019t let your babies grow up to be zennies \nThey\u2019ll never stay home and they\u2019re always alone \nEven with someone they love \nZennies like smokey old zendos and clear mountain mornin\u2019s \nExpensive green tea and Cohen and women of light \nAnd them that don\u2019t know him won\u2019t like him \nAnd them that do sometimes won\u2019t know how to take him \nHe ain\u2019t wrong he\u2019s just different \nbut his pride won\u2019t let him do things to make you think he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Day off and I\u2019m getting a bit silly! 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