Jimmie Rodgers English Country Garden Lyrics

English Country Garden Lyrics

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.

How 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.

(repeat first verse)