There's Eriogonum and Ephedra
And Purshia and Lepidium
And they're all just little bushes
And they all look just the same.

And the students, on the hillside
All came from the University
And they stare at all the bushes
And they still look just the same.

Little bushes, in the valley
and you better guess that they're Chenopodes
But as soon as you do
Then you're sure that they're not.

Little bushes, everywhere you go
Little bushes, and they're all gray-green
Little bushes, little bushes
And they all look just the same.

Everywhere we go, all around the world
We will always remember those
Little bushes, on the hillside
How they all look just the same.

There's a gray one, and a gray one,
And a gray one, and a gray one,
And they're all just little bushes
And they all look just the same.

When the field trip is over
We all take a little quiz on them.
All those ugly little bushes
How I hope they're all the same.