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PostPosted: Sat May 18, 2013 6:11 pm 
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Brian Matthews' "Sound of the Sixties" this morning featured Jimmy Rogers' 1962 single "In an English Country Garden". For the first time I listened to the lyrics carefully and was astonished to find that this particular English country garden contained Bobolink, Tanager and Cardinal! I would love to know whereabouts in England was this particular garden and whether the report was accepted by the RBBP?


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PostPosted: Sat May 18, 2013 9:13 pm 
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Stuart Britton wrote:
Brian Matthews' "Sound of the Sixties" this morning featured Jimmy Rogers' 1962 single "In an English Country Garden". For the first time I listened to the lyrics carefully and was astonished to find that this particular English country garden contained Bobolink, Tanager and Cardinal! I would love to know whereabouts in England was this particular garden and whether the report was accepted by the RBBP?


Must have been on the Scilly Isles Stuart :D

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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:58 pm 
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I think you mean BBRC (not RBBP) Stuart! :D

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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:49 pm 
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10 out of 10 Graham - I realized my mistake a couple of days ago and you're the first to spot it!


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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 11:05 am 
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Im a sixties fan and must listen to that one again!!well listened!!


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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 9:52 am 
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That's only the half of it. I've checked the most popular lyrics for this tune on the Web. Apparently, we should also look out for fireflies, quail and bluebird in our English country gardens!

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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2013 9:04 pm 
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Thank goodness, John that someone else has taken the obvious misidentifation seriously!!


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:57 pm 
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As the song was obviously written by a North American (not Jimmie Rodgers who only did the arrangement) did you not consider that the composer of the song might have been alluding to New England. The birds he refers to would, I am sure, regularly occur in that American state. Presumably he dropped New in the song to keep the number of words in the bar correct!
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