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    Songs and Music to Garden By 


    Title
    Singer . . . 
    The Floral Dance ~ Dibble
    Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band
    Flowers in the Rain, Blackberry Way, I Can Hear the Grass Grow ~ Dibble
    The Move
    I never promised you a rose garden ~ Dibble  Lynn Anderson
    Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme ~ Dibble Simon and what's his name
    Tiptoe Through the Tulips ~ Johanna and Dale Tiny Tim
    Flight of the Bumble Bee ~ Angela  
    Safe in my Garden ~ Dibble
    The Mamas and Papas
    Home Grown Tomatoes ~ Sue John Denver on the album HIGHER GROUND.
    Garden Song -- "inch by inch, row by row, 
    gonna make this garden grow" ~ Laura
    Pete Seeger
    Green Grow the Lilacs ~ Laura Harry Belafonte
    Venus Fly Trap and the Bug, Power Flower, 
    A Seed's A Star/Tree Medley ~ Laura
    Stevie Wonder
    Amazing Grass ~ Pierre Kevin 'bloody' Wilson
    Where Have All The Flowers Gone? ~ Wendy The Kingston Trio
    Woodstock --  "And we've got to get back to the garden . . . " ~ Melody Joni Mitchell
    Johnny's Garden -- "There's a place where I can get to, where I'm safe from the city blues,  and it's green, and it's quiet . . ." ~ Melody Steven Stills and Manassas
    Green Onions ~ Melody Booker T and the MGs
    Roses are Red, my love ~ Wayne Bobby Vinton
    I'm a Lonely Little Petunia (In an Onion Patch)
    ~ Brenda and Lee
    Gracie Fields
    Singin in the Rain ~ Dale Gene Kelly
    Gentil Coquelicot (Nice Poppy) ~ Dany Nursery song by L. Vernay & les 4 barbus
    I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover ~ Lee
    The Red Rose of Summer ~ Bert and Alice  
    Daisy, Daisy, (Give me your answer, do)
    ~ Bert and Alice
     
    Under Milkwood ~ Bert and Alice  
    The Yellow Rose of Texas ~ Bert and Alice  
    Itsy-bitsy spider song ~ Donna  
    In an Octopussy's Garden ~ Kelly Ringo Starr
    In-a gadda-da-da-vida (in a Garden of Eden)
    ~ Lynn
    Iron Butterfly
    Strawberry Fields ~ Kelly Beatles 
    Too Much (Chorus sings,
    Too much just ain't enough.  Baby you're the only thing I do too much of ain't enough.  The first line of the song is, Too much work will make your back ache.) ~ Christie
    The Pirates of the Mississippi 
    The Rose ~ Aram Bette Midler
    The Weasel (Parody song about the infamous 'garden weasel') ~ Shellie Heywood Banks
    Oats, green beans and barley grows ~ Lisa  
    In an English Country Garden ~ Godess of Dirt Nana Mouskouri, among others.
    The lord is good to me, And so I thank the lord,
    for giving me the things I need . . . The sun, and the rain, and the apple seed ~ Karen
    John Chapman
    a.k.a. Johnnie Appleseed
    Doeseatoats . . ."Mares eat oats and does it oats,
    and little lambs eat ivy, kids will eat ivy, too, wouldn't you. ~ Karen
     
    Symphony No. 6 in F 'Pastoral', OP.68 Beethoven
    April Showers --  "When April Showers come your way they bring the flowers that bloom in
    May and when it's raining have no regrets, cause it is'nt raining rain you know it is raining Violets, and when the showers do come your way they bring the flowers that bloomin May . . . 
    ~ Joan
    Al Jolson
    Canto Della Terra ~ Jeanne Andrea Bocelli
    Garden Party ~ Cheryl, Wayne Ricky Nelson
    Get a Job - doodoodoodoo, doodadoodoo
    ~ Auntie Canuck
    The Coasters
    Mountain Greenery  ~ John Mel Torme?
    An English Rose  John Webster Booth
    Autumn Leaves ~ John  
    June is Busting Out All Over ~ John  
    September in the Rain ~ John  
    Edelweiss ~ John The Sound of Music
    Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head ~ John  
    Raindrops ~ Judy Dee Clark
    Here Comes the Rain Again ~ Judy Eurythmics
    Rainy Night in Georgia ~ Judy
    Inchworm, Inchworm . . . "measuring the Marigolds" ~ Kathy The Muppets
    Lavender Blue ~ Joan  
    Lemon Tree ~ Sharon Trini Lopez
    Yellow Rose of Texas ~ Sharon  
    Get Out of My Garden ~ Edie Tori Amos
    Steady As The Beating Drum . . . "Steady as the beating drum/Singing to the cedar flute/Seasons go and seasons come/Bring the corn and bear the fruit" ~ Edie Disney's Pocahontas soundtrack 
    Alexander Beetle . . . "If we look about the garden for the holes where beetles hid -- And we'd get another match-box and write BEETLE on the lid" ~ Carol Melanie 
    When Apples Grow on a Lilac Tree ~ Eileen   
    I come to the Garden Alone (Hymn) ~ Jason  
    The Rose of Tralee ~ Erly  
    Down With Disease ~ Edie Phish 
    I Can See Clearly . . . "now the rain is gone"
    ~ Angela
    James Taylor? 
    Here Comes the Sun ! Judy George Harrison
    Good Timin' ~ Judy Jimmy Jones
    Rockin' Robin ~ Judy Bobby Day
    The Green Green Grass of Home ~ Shauna Tom Jones and many more
    Zippidy Doo Dah ~ Judy Uncle Remus
    Bed Of Roses ~ Jaqueline Bette Midler
    I'll give you a daisy a day, dear, I'll give you a daisy a day . . . ~ Ron  
    The Worm Song . . . "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, goin' in the garden to eat some worms" ~ Janet  
    Come to My Garden.
    A Bit of Earth.
    It's a maze this garden, it's a maze of weeds.
    Wick . . . "You clear away the dead parts so the tender bulbs can form, Loosen up the earth and let the roots get warm ~ Vicki
    All from The Secret Garden
    And the green grass grew all around and around, the green grass grew all around ~ Terry  
    All Things Bright and Beautiful ~ Pat Cecil Francis Alexander 1823-95
    Please, Please, Don't Eat the Daisies ~ Summer Doris Day
    Twas Just a Garden in the Rain ~ Marg Johnny Rae 
    In the garden ~ Judy Hymn 
    Little Green Apples ~ Natalie Bobby Goldsboro 
    Click go the Shears ~ Beryl Australian ballad
    Poison Ivy ~ Natalie  Nylons 
    Plus all these that arrived from Tami too late for the contest.

    1)The Banana Boat Song, "Put the lime in the coconut and eat it all up and I say Doctor, is there nonthin I can take" 

    2) "Really love your peaches wanna shake your tree" (particial verse from Steve Miller song,)

    3) A white sport coat and a PINK Carnation....Pat Boone

    4)Do the Watermelon Crawl,  a country song by Tracy Byrd

    5) Let's call the whole thing off....You say Potato, I say Pototo, you say Tomato, I say Tomoto....Let's call the whole thing off

    6) One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch of girls, I don't care what they say . . . I don't care what they do... The Osmonds

    7) Paper Roses, by Marie Osmond

    8) Elderberry wine, drunk all the time, feelin fine on Elderberry wine..... Elton John

    9) Days of Wine & Roses . . . Frank Sinatra, or was it Dean Martin, but love the simile, Wine for grapes and Roses for well roses.

    For Purple Mountains Majesty and Amber waves of grain
    America the beautiful.

    11) Just what makes that lil ole ant think he can move a rubber tree plant cause every body knows an ant cant.....

    12) Green Green Grass of Home . . .Tom Jones

    13) Vidella why do you always make me cry   Sammy Kershaw, 

    14) God didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in Indianapolis is the summer time

    15) I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone

    16) Apple Peach & Pumpkin Pie.... (song from motown 50's era)

    17) Countin flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
          Statler Brothers

    18) "See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been that long since it was a twig"  from the song "Honey"  Bobby Goldsboro

    19) When I was a lil bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle in those ole cotton fields back home, ....Creedence Clear Water

    20) Walkin in high cotton old times there were not forgotten those fertile fields were never far away,.... country song from Alabama 

    21) "Papa wont sell the farm" country song about farming

    22) Blue eyes crying in the rain . . . Willy Nelson 

    23) Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, we will be rejoicing bringin in the sheaves . . . gospel hymn.

    24) Don't sit under the Apple Tree with anyone else but me, anyone else but me, anyone else but me . . .  .Andrew sisters?

    25) Where corn don't grow . . . Travis Tritt

     
    See entries from previous contests  here 


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