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.

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)