Jimmie Rodgers - English Country Garden lyrics

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How many kinds of sweet flowers grow

In an English country garden?

I'll tell you now of some that I know

And those I miss you'll surely pardon

Daffodils, heart's ease and flox

Meadowsweet and lady smocks

Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks

Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots

In an English country garden

(In an English country garden)

How many insects come here and go

Through our English country garden?

I'll tell you now of some that I know

And those I miss you'll surely pardon

Fireflies, moths gnats and bees

Spiders climbing in the trees

Butterflies that sway on the cool gentle breeze

There are snakes, ants that sting

And other creeping things

In an English country garden

(In an English country garden)

How many songbirds fly to and fro

Through our English country garden?

I'll tell you now of some that I know

And those I 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

(In an English country garden)

Robin (Robin, robin)

Don't forget the robin (Don't forget the robin)

Robin (Robin, robin)

Don't forget the robin

(Whistle........FADE)

Thanks to Jane L. Funke for these lyrics