Gardens
(Agnes Mure MacKenzie)
cho: For days work and weeks work, as I go up and down
There are many gardens all about the town
For days work and weeks work as I go up and down
There are many gardens all about the town
One that's gay with daffodils
One where children play
One that's white with cherry flowers
Another red with May
CHO
A kitten and a lilac bush
Bridal white and tall
And later crimson ramblers
Against a granite wall
CHO
I have passed your railings
When you never knew
And people who have gardens
I give my thanks to you
CHO
recorded by the McCalmans
As to authorship etc., the "real" title is "To People Who Have Gardens", air fro
m Marion Macleod of Eigg, arranged for voice and piano by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
--among her Songs of the Hebrides collection. I have the sheet music from Boosey
& Co., copyright 1921. The words are by the novelist and historian Agnes Mure M
acKenzie of Stornoway. MS
HS JW
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