The Garden Song
The garden song intro.
The garden song. All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground. The version of garden song covered by john. The song has been recorded by paul stookey of peter paul and mary john denver pete seeger fred penner david lamotte makem and clancy raffi cavoukian john lithgow arlo guthrie elizabeth mitchell charlotte diamond as well as the muppets. Perhaps the finest performance ever recorded of garden song by songwriter dave mallett 1993.
F g7 c am dm g7. Return to my list of the clancys and tommy makem songs. Inch by inch row by row gonna make this garden grow all it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground inch by inch row by row someone bless these seeds i. By david mallett chorus.
Garden song is a popular childrens song and american folk song written by david mallett in 1975. Many people think of. C f c f g7 c. F g7 c am dm g7 c g7 each chord gets 2 beats chorus.
Inch by inch row by row gonna make this garden grow. Someday im gonna live in your house up on the hill and when your skinhead neighbor goes missing ill plant a garden in the yard then theyre gluing roses on a flatbed. With mark oconnor jerry douglas brent mason glen worf and harry stinson. Garden song there is a mechanism inside phoebe bridgers that allows her to gaze unflinchingly into the pitch black of her psyche and emerge with a beautiful bittersweet song every time.
Makem and clancy made this popular in ireland the sheet music notes are includedthe garden song has been recorded by many folk singers it was even used in an episode of the muppets but the song was originally written and recorded in the 1970s by singersongwriter dave mallet from the state of maine in the us.