Plantlife songs

[cycleruk]

I know these are Rhymes but are sung as well.

Ring a ring of roses.

Mary Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow. With silver bells & cockleshells.

I had a little nut tree Nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg And a golden pear.

Lavender’s blue Dilly, dilly, Lavender’s green.

Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.

[AlanD]

In no particular order:
Cottonfields - Beachboys
Rosemary's Sister - Fairport Convention
Banks of the sweet primroses - Fairport Convention
Green grows the laurels - Cara Dillon
John Barleycorn - The Lark Rise Band
Life is a lemon & I want my money back - Meatloaf
For the roses - Joni Mitchell
The hissing of summer lawns - Joni Mitchell
Secret Garden - The Alan Parsons Project
Sold a rose - Judie Tzuke
Sir James the rose - Steeleye Span
Iceberg - 10cc
Wooden ships - Crosby Stills Nash & Young
One for the vine - Genesis
Driftwood - Moody Blues
The winter tree - Rennaissance
Raincoat and a rose - Chris Rea
Coconut - Sailor
The Red Weed - Jeff Wayne

And not quite making it, because it's an album title, is Tormato - Yes

[fausto copy]

Mmm, not a bad record collection there Alan.
And I bet they're all vinyl.

[gaz]

Kiss from a rose - Seal
Weeping Willow - the Verve
(Nothing but) Flowers - Talking Heads
Clover over Dover - Blur
China roses - Enya
The memory of trees - Enya

Tip toe through the tulips
English country garden
Wild mountain thyme
Yes, we have no bananas

[Mick F]

Yes, we have no bananas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrmBWtOW ... re=related
Excellent!

[Flinders]

Does Linden Lea count?

[AlanD]

Guessed right Fausto Copy.
Right from my very first job after school, I was down the record shop every week. When I went and bought myself a Revox B77 tape recorder, I started taping them, so that I did not need to touch the discs, I don't use it any more and it's way past it's best but I cannot bring myself to take it down the tip. Now I have used the computer to copy them onto CD's. The Vinyl collection takes up a hugh space, one recent prize find was the Beatles White album; on CD's the wallet fits under my arm. I can almost go through the alphabet, it's mostly progressive rock, but there's also a fair amount of folk. The greatest number are for the Moody Blues. Beach Boys, Alan Parsons Project, Joni Mitchell and Rick Wakeman also score high. Now that I'm buying CD's, there's a fair amount of modern stuff. Across both mediums, Fairport Convention probably ranks highest.
The speakers are Kef 104's, the power is a Yamaha 60W receiver, was top of the range when I bought it. Inputs are a Rotel CD player, a Garrard record deck and for radio, a 5-element dipole outside.

[fausto copy]

it's mostly progressive rock

Hope there's some Gentle Giant in there Alan.
I came late to Fairport, seemingly hating folky stuff in my youff.
However, Richard Thompson probably my greatest hero now
as well as John Kirkpatrick (who we were privileged to see recently in our little old village).

If you're interested, I won a Pink Triangle Anniversary Turntable, SME arm and AT cartridge, years ago.
Worth a tidy two and a half grand. It's matched up with Sugden pre and power amps
and Heybrook Sextet speakers.

Your Garrard is still a classic though.

Sorry for hijacking this thread slightly folks.

[Lawrie9]

Blood Red Roses - Uriah Heep

[Lawrie9]

Dandelion - Autoslave

[Mick F]

.......... Sorry for hijacking this thread slightly folks.

That's ok!

It struck me whilst looking out into the garden that there were many songs about plants/trees/gardens etc.
I wonder why there are so many?

I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree.

[fausto copy]

It struck me whilst looking out into the garden that there were many songs about plants/trees/gardens etc.
I wonder why there are so many?

I suppose after love, or loss of, which is what most songs are about,
plants, trees and gardens are the next best things, certainly to look at.

Not that many good songs about buildings for instance, are there

New thread please.

[ferrit worrier]

It struck me whilst looking out into the garden that there were many songs about plants/trees/gardens etc.
I wonder why there are so many?

I suppose after love, or loss of, which is what most songs are about,
plants, trees and gardens are the next best things, certainly to look at.

Not that many good songs about buildings for instance, are there

New thread please.

London Bridge is falling down

[Mick F]

Heartbreak Hotel
This Old House
Hotel California
Behind the Green Door
They're Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace

[Guy951]

This Ole House
Windmills of Your Mind
Winchester Cathedral