Song for Saturday; In An English Country Garden, Nana Mouskouri

Nana Mouskouri :

In an English Country Garden

This song has been in my heads for a while, it seems to go with the time of year, and the photos of flowers in the video are quite nice too.
I've not lived 'Down South', (as we say), for more than 20 years but this song really does, for me at least, typify the English garden.
 
ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN
(Traditional)
Jimmie Rodgers - 1962
Also recorded by: Nana Mouskouri; Rolf Harris;
Bill Garden Orch; Brothert Jack McDuff Big Band.


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
Gentian, 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
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