I Have a Garden

Author: Mary Hale Woolsey
Composer: Old French melody

Languages (7)

This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:

• Dutch: Ik heb een tuintje
• English: I Have a Garden
• French: Dans mon beau jardin
• Japanese: [Unknown title]
• Portuguese: Meu Jardim
• Spanish: Mi jardín
• Swedish: Mitt hjärtas trädgård

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Representative lyrics

English (Original Language)

I Have a Garden

Sing with Me (1969), p. G-18

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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