English Country Garden
By Jan Harmon
words and music © 1969
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow -
in an English Country Garden?
I'll tell you now of some that I know.
Come my love - we will dance across the floor -
Showing off the new faces that we wore.
CHORUS: We are dancing a pretty minuet
while the music-box plays a waltz.
One - two - three.
One - two - three.
Crossword people - who look away from you -
Verbal junkyards that clutter up my view.
CHO.
Pasteboard postmen who hand above the street.
Funeral riders - who offer me their seat.
CHO.
Antique babies - who never learned to die.
Ice cream faces that melt beneath a sigh.
CHO.
Handcuff handshake you give me every spring.
Do you think I would try to steal your ring?
CHO.
Starched white apron you tie around your heart.
Neon streetsigns that show me where to start.
CHO.
In an English Country Garden.