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Country Gardens" is an old English folk tune traditionally used for Morris dancing. It was introduced by traditional folk musician William Kimber to Cecil Sharp near the beginning of the twentieth century, then popularised by a diverse range of musicians from Percy Grainger and David Stanhope to Jimmie Rodgers .
Edward Bunting noted a song by the name "Rose Connolly" in 1811 in Coleraine. [5] [6] [7] A version with slightly different lyrics is known from Galway in 1929. [5] The song has lyrical similarities to W. B. Yeats' 1899 poem "Down by the Salley Gardens", which itself probably derives from the Irish ballad "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure". [5]
The Brothers Four recorded the song on their 1964 LP "More Big Folk Hits", Columbia Records, CL-2213. The Four Seasons recorded the song on their 1964 Philips album Born to Wander, PHM 200 129. Lars Lönndahl recorded the song in 1964 [22] with Swedish lyrics Inga blommor finns det mer, translated in 1962 [23] by Beppe Wolgers.
The song also appears on John Prine and Mac Wiseman's 2007 Standard Songs for Average People. The song is included on Johnny Cash's 5-CD box set Cash Unearthed, released posthumously in November, 2003, [7] and featured on disc 4, My Mother's Hymn Book. This collection of gospel songs was released as a stand-alone disc six months later.
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A folk rock ballad, [2] "Garden Song" was produced by Bridgers herself alongside Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska. [1] The song features a "wave of shimmery synths" and "delicate, crushing vocals", with its lyrics depicting "a scene from a fairytale, one that includes a house resting on a hill with thousands of roses (and probably a few ghosts)". [3]
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