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24 Jul 00 - 05:36 PM (#263839) Subject: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: The Shambles Can anyone help with the words to 'Proper Gardener'? I think that is the title.... |
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24 Jul 00 - 05:50 PM (#263848) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: Pene Azul Is it June Tabor's "A Proper Sort Of Gardener" (written by Maggie Holland)? If so, there's a review of an album that contains it here. No luck on lyrics so far. PA |
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24 Jul 00 - 05:57 PM (#263853) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: The Shambles Ah yes, I missed off the 'sort of'. That's the one. Lovely song. |
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24 Jul 00 - 06:14 PM (#263862) Subject: Lyr Add: PROPER SORT OF GARDENER (Maggie Holland^^ From: Morticia A PROPER SORT OF GARDENER (Maggie Holland) Once upon a time I found a garden picked the brightest flowers that I could see an apron ful of Mr Harding's flowers I didn't know that he was watching me Straight away my mother went to tell him Wondering what he would say or do Mr Harding smiled, he said she's just a little child I knew that she'd be picking them for you By the fire my dad would tell me stories One of them concerned a garden too Where the lion and the lamb lay down together And every kind of fruit and flower grew The gardener sent his children in to play there Rejoicing in the brightness of the day But when they went exploring and took a fruit to taste He cursed them both and sent them on their way Even then I realised in my childish mind That he wasn't a proper gardener of the Mr Harding kind Mr Harding's garden was all taken By lesser men with concrete on their mind Factory chimneys grew instead of daisies No butterflies from that assembly line My mother faded faster than a flower Dad sat in the darkness and he cried Mr Harding moves a little slower than before But still he tends the grave where they both lie Wherever it is they've gone to I hope that they will find A proper sort of gardener of the Mr Harding kind A foolish womAn sometimes feels despairing Thinks it seems so very hard to find A child tries to plant a little everywhere she goes That special love of the Mr Harding kind Someday when I'm older I hope that I will find That I've grown into a gardener of the Mr Harding kind ^^ |
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24 Jul 00 - 06:26 PM (#263873) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: The Shambles Yes. Many thanks. |
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25 Jul 00 - 07:10 AM (#264144) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: Gervase Terri, you're a brick. I've been after than song for yonks, ever since I heard Pearl sing it in the barn at Towersey. Many thanks! |
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25 Jul 00 - 02:23 PM (#264393) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: Liz the Squeak Gervase, all you had to do was ask me, I've been looking for an excuse to pass it on for ages..... I saw it done by Derek Gifford, at a Les Barker gig, to the accompanyment of a small barrow load of vegetables and a giant inflatable carrot which disappeared into the streets of Bedworth, never to be seen again..... You can hear the tape if you want, but you get me having a paroxism as well.... LTS |
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25 Jul 00 - 03:35 PM (#264446) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: Morticia small, rectangular and red, Gervase? mmmmnnn, and I thought we were friends! |
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25 Jul 00 - 04:35 PM (#264493) Subject: RE: Lyr Req. Proper Gardener? From: Liz the Squeak Could be big, grey and wrinkly - is that a cinder block or an elephant..... LTS (sorry)
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