Rolf Harris and English Country Garden is a superb song to put images to ... like all the flowers ... all the rum gardens ... all the insects ... and 'specially the last bit about the common market ... it is a song that really depicts the times that it was recorded in ... the seventies ... with its three day weeks ... electricity rotas ... stopping unions striking ... and sending our country up the swaneey ... where we totally are now. Oh yeh, I forgot ... also the laying of of labour ... some of it was for the better but I feel the majority was a load of old cobblers ... Now for the lyrics
ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN
Country Gardens is an English folk tune collected by Cecil Sharp and arranged for piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger.
The tune was used in 1728 in ligne orange The Quaker's Opera and for the song The Vicar of Bray.( but this might be a load of old bullocks)
Also recorded by: Nana Mouskouri;
Bill Garden Orchestra; Brother Jack McDuff Big Band.
As recorded by ROLF HARRIS
(Traditional - Re-arranged by Robert Jordan & Cecil Sharp):
How many gentle flowers grow
In an English country garden?
I'll tell you now of some of them I know
And those I miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flocks
Meadowsweet and lilies, stocks
Gentle lupins and tall hollyhocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops and forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
How many insects build their homes
In an English country landaluce garden?
I'll tell you now of some of them I know
And those I miss I trust you will pardon
Dragonflies and moths and bees
Spiders falling from the trees
Butterflies sway in the cool gentle breeze
There are wasps' empty homes
And tiny little gnomes
In an English country garden
How many songbirds.....
SPOKEN: Actually, I've seen some of these gardens they talk about.
And the sort of impression you get is that it's....
Wet underfoot and the leaves are thick with soot
In an English country garden
Newspapers torn and strewn across the lawn
In an English country garden
Litter, garbage in the yards
Little doggies' calling cards
One scraggy rosebud peering through the weeds
For they've all downed tools
While they do their football pools
In an English country garden
Market, join the Common Market
Market, join the Common Market.....FADE
ORIGINAL WORDS
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
How iranian war many insects come here and go
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Fireflies, moths, gnats and bees
Spiders climbing in the trees
Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze
There are snakes, ants that sting
And other creeping things
In an English country garden
How many songbirds fly to and fro
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Bobolink, cuckoo and quail
Tanager and cardinal
Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale
There is joy in the spring
When the birds begin to sing
In an English country garden
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
I might be wrong with the lyrics ... so don't take them as Gospel
