I Have a Garden
Author: Mary Hale Woolsey
Composer: Old French melody
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Danish: Jeg har en have
- Dutch: Ik heb een tuintje
- English: I Have a Garden
- Finnish: Kun hoidan maani
- French: Dans mon beau jardin
- German: In meinem Garten
- Icelandic: Ég á mér garð
- Italian: Il mio giardino
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Mandarin (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Jeg har en have
- Portuguese: Meu Jardim
- Samoan: E I Ai Sou Toga Laau
- Spanish: Mi jardín
- Swedish: Mitt hjärtas trädgård
- Tongan: Kuo u Maʻu Ha Ngoue
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Most common tunes for “I Have a Garden”
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Appearances of “I Have a Garden” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1939 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI?)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Primary Song Book (1939), no. 61.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. I have a garden, a lovely garden, With flowers blossoming ever fair; Where sun shines brightly, and rain falls lightly, And breezes gather sweet fragrance there. Songbirds come singing out of the sky; Butterflies winging, hobering by; And in my garden, my lovely garden, There’s always beauty to greet the eye.
2. I have a garden, a secret garden, Where thot’s like flowers grow day by day; ’Tis I must choose them, and tend and use them, And cast all wrong ones like weeds away. Goodness and love are seeds that I sow; God up above will help me I know, To keep my garden, my heart’s own garden, A place where beauty will always grow.
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