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Country Gardens – Twelve-Handbell Version

People in England treasure their gardens, and many of them have one that’s truly fine. Country Gardens relates some of the wonders of having a truly glorious one!

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 hollyhocks, 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

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