A humorous song from 1908.
Words and music by Lawrence Hanray.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I had a little garden
A pretty little thing
Which used to sleep the winter through
And wake up with the Spring
I had a little garden
With flowers rare I set it
And then one night when all was still
The cat got in and eat it
There were violets and violins
And vile things of many kinds
Tiger lilies, water lilies
Picca-lillies, too
French beans, broad beans
Bile Beans for billiousness
Lots of han(d)-som(e) cabbages
And turnips not a few
Grean peas, split peas
M. P’s and other kinds
Ev’ry sort of berry
(Or cremation if preferred)
Bluebells, hare-bells
Dumb-bells, dinner-bells
A model of a garden
You can take my word
There was celery and Pommery
And Heidsieck and other brands
Yellow aster, China aster
Waldorf Astor, too
Fig trees, plum trees
Hawtreys and Beerbohm Trees
Water press and whiskey cress
I leave the choice to you
Onions, bunions
Cornflow’r and arrowroot
Marigold and marriages
Divorces too as well
Moss-rose, dog-rose
Cat-rose, bloater-roes
Everything that grows on earth
And ought to grow – in the other places
I had a little garden
And countess yards of hose
Which used to give me shower baths
And spoil my pretty clothes
I had a little garden
A motorcar one day
Looked in and breathed upon it
And it faded quite away