June 30, 2009

Garden Bloggers' Muse Day

What do you sing when you garden? I guess it depends on the songs you grew up with, at least it was for me. Growing up in the sunny south we'd garden to such songs as " In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home ", " Walking in High Cotton, " "Papa Won't Sell the Farm " and the " Green , Green Grass of Home ", to name a few.

I ran across an interesting site today titled Garden Humour website whose author, garden writer David Hobson of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ran a contest titled Songs and Music to Garden By. He received an incredible response. I never realized there were so many songs about gardening and nature.

Many of the songs are familiar to most of us :

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Home Grown Tomatoes
Green Grow the Lilacs
Roses are Red, my Love
I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in the Onion Patch
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Strawberry Fields

These are but a few of the huge response he received. Visit his website for the complete list and many more amusing stories and jokes.

In the meantime, here's one of my all-time favorite singers with the Garden Song :







12 comments:

  1. Hi Carolyn - I'm still humming the songs we had to learn for our Big Sing fundraiser last Saturday.

    Owing to the heat over here at the moment, my musing today's more dreamlike...

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  2. Hi Carolyn Gail, that WAS a sweet number, and usually hate sweet numbers as well, but this one was charming. Flowers and fruits singing win one's heart every time.

    I have posted a poem today, my first time joining in your wonderful muse day, too. Thanks for sponsoring it.

    Frances

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  3. Carolyn gail - Inch by inch is one of my very favorite garden songs. Thank you. My GBMD post is up, too.

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  4. Brilliant, Carolyn, that made my day.

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  5. It's been a while since I heard that John Denver song - loved the singing flowers :) Will be visit the garden humour website soon. My post is also up now.

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  6. This is a sweet post and thoughtful fun exercise! Thanks for sharing. I will go visit.

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  7. Oh, I miss John Denver. Your post was so nice and playful. My Muse Day post is up. For some reason unknown to me, I wasn't able to get into the comment section of your blog last night.

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  8. This IS the perfect garden song, Carolyn Gail! This video brought back so many memories--I always loved John Denver, though I'm sure I didn't appreciate the sentiments of this song when I heard it back in the 70's. And I remember, too, always looking forward to the Muppet Show coming on; it was one show my boys and I could all enjoy.

    I feel bad I didn't participate this month: I also participate occasionally in a book review group whose posting fell on the same day this month, and I wanted to post a review of The Garden of Invention, the book we got at Spring Fling. I will be back with a Muse Day post next month!

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  9. Hi,
    Thanks for the sweet reminder of John Denver. He is so missed.

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  10. Thank you all for joining GBMD. I'll be over to read your selections.

    Visit our friend Nancy at Soliloquy ( http://www.tinyurl.com/lhrdr5 ) whose has posted as well but wasn't able to leave a comment.

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  11. Carolyn, What a great Muse Day post. It would be hard to visualize a world without song. The name "John Denver" conjurs a sweet memory of many happy moments.

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  12. Carolyn, I'm late, I'm late for a very important date! I love your Muse Day and now I've finally posted. I'm sorry this is tardy, but I hope you enjoy it. :-)

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