Gardening Songs

[RevFunk]

Any ideas about songs that have a gardening reference??

[Ethel]

Lavender's Blue, Dilly Dilly

Flowers in the Rain - The Move

Come in to the Garden, Maude

We'll Gather Lilacs

The Garden Where the Praties Grow - John McCormack

Down By The Sally Gardens

The Biggest Aspidestra in the World - Gracie Fields

Trees - Paul Robeson

Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby

A Little White Gardenia - Al Bowlly

Let It Bloom - Bing Crosby

Green Grow The Rushes Oh

I Can Hear the Grass Grow - The Move

And some old obscure ones here:
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2006-5/thismonth /feature.php

[RevFunk]

Most of those are obscure Ethel lol to me anyway

many thanks

[mep]

English Country Garden - The Darkness

[kjc]

It was lynne anderson nokno, classed as country and western I think...
:-)

[RevFunk]

Burger me knowledge bit of an obscurity lol

[knobster]

What about octopuses garden by the beatles

[kjc]

I don't know that song by the jam....but it sounds lovely if it was a poem.

how about... 'I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me'
could be sung by prince charles?
:-)

[tyrepill]

Someones been diggin' my potatoes...(leadbelly & lonnie donegan)

[postmanthe]

John Denver Garden Song
Tom Paxton Who's Garden Was This
Frankie Vaughn Garden Of Eden

[Dr Wu]

What about 'Blanket on the ground force' by Billie- Joe Shears?

...I'll get me coat!

[factor-fiction]

Eamon- I love dem hoes?
Motorhead-Ace of Spades
Mock turtles- can you dig it

[Disco Fever]

Hey Ethel the first one is Lavender Blue by Sammy Turner in 1959....

[factor-fiction]

-mow the lawn by Gorkys Psychotic monkey
-weed party
-shed a tear

[schmoggie]

It's been a good year for the roses (various)
Honey by Bobby Goldsborough (sp?) - See the twig, how big it's grown etc etc
Tiptoe through the tulips
I got a New Rose (the Damned)...bit tenuous, I know...