Mucking About the Garden

A comedy one-step song from 1929
Words and music by Q. Kumber (pseudonym for the well-known British singer, actor and songwriter Leslie Sarony)

The sheet music:

Mucking About the Garden – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Mucking_About_The_Garden – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. We’re a happy family
    I’d like you all to know
    We live with Uncle Joe
    In a little bungalow
    It has got a garden
    And it keeps him on the go
    If a friend says, “Where’s your uncle?”
    We just answer, “Oh, he’s

Chorus
Mucking about the garden, always on the go
Seeds begin to show, weeds begin to grow
Mucking about the garden, dear old Uncle Joe
Works for hours among the flowers
And then begins to crow
Everything is loverly-overly
Everywhere, everywhere
Morning noon and night he’s on the go, Oh!
Mucking about the garden, dear old Uncle Joe
Sings, “Ripe tomatoes, apples and plums”
Watching his onions grow

  1. Uncle said he thought that
    It was time to settle down
    He wed a girl in town
    By the name of Mary Brown
    Yesterday I met his wife
    And she began to swoon
    She said, “Where do you think I’ve had
    To spend my honeymoon?

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: