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Luckygirl Mon 31-Oct-16 22:18:49

It is my turn once more to set the next pub quiz and I want to put onto a CD some music or songs that relate to flowers or trees so that I can play them and have people identify them - any genre: classical, pop, folk etc.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks
x

Grannyknot Tue 01-Nov-16 08:14:58

Oops I see the Glen Milller one has already been mentioned...

Greyduster Tue 01-Nov-16 08:18:25

The Oak and the Ash.
Banks of Green Willow.

DanniRae Tue 01-Nov-16 08:22:51

"Lily the Pink" - Scaffold

JackyB Tue 01-Nov-16 08:39:12

Lavender's Blue dilly dilly
Ring a ring a roses
How many gentle flowers grow in an English country garden?
I like the flowers, I love the daffodils
Life is but a melancholy flower (Life is butter melon cauliflower)
The oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree... (A North country maid up to London had strayed...)
Land of the silver birch (we used to sing that in guides - I think it's a Canadian song, we sang it in a round)
There's another one which I know in German and French and I'm sure there's an English version but it escapes me for the moment: French: "Vent frais, vent du matin, vent qui souffle au sommet des grands pins.."

JackyB Tue 01-Nov-16 08:42:09

Here you are - I found you this.
www.songfacts.com/category-songs_with_flowers_in_the_title.php

And don't forget : "Daisy, daisy" ! You could finish the quiz with a singalong!

JackyB Tue 01-Nov-16 08:43:29

The songs in that link are all modern pop songs. It doesn't even have the Yellow Rose of Texas.

Cherrytree59 Tue 01-Nov-16 08:50:06

O' Rowan Tree

Aurelia Tue 01-Nov-16 08:52:04

Edelweiss

Aurelia Tue 01-Nov-16 08:53:40

Tulips from Amsterdam

Aurelia Tue 01-Nov-16 08:59:58

My love's an arbutus

Bellanonna Tue 01-Nov-16 09:48:47

It's cherry pink and apple blossom white (Alma Cogan I believe)

Bellanonna Tue 01-Nov-16 09:49:10

Rose of Tralee

dizzygran Tue 01-Nov-16 09:54:23

Sounds a fun quiz

Does Autumn leaves count?

Lily the Pink
Roses are Red (my love Violets are Blue)

bethanmp23 Tue 01-Nov-16 09:57:29

English Country Garden - Percy Grainger
Pastoral Symphony [also a piano sonata] by Beethoven
There is no rose of such virtue - traditional [and Sting!]

GrannyMosh Tue 01-Nov-16 10:01:43

Love grows where my Rosemary goes - Edison Lighthouse.

grandMattie Tue 01-Nov-16 10:05:27

What about the quintessential Victorian song "Come into the garden Maud"?
My love is like a Red, Red Rose...

grandMattie Tue 01-Nov-16 10:06:02

French ones as well? grin
Gentil coqulicot

NannyDa Tue 01-Nov-16 10:09:26

Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John

Greyduster Tue 01-Nov-16 10:11:56

The First Tree in the Greenwood (it was the Holleeeee!!)

Aurelia Tue 01-Nov-16 10:44:09

Parsley sage rosemary and thyme (Simon & Garfunkel)

lujaha Tue 01-Nov-16 11:09:20

The Linden Tree.

Luckygirl Tue 01-Nov-16 11:11:15

Brilliant! I am just counting up the ideas and think I may be able to hone it down to a musical round about just roses!

Blinko Tue 01-Nov-16 11:11:31

Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise; the birds in the trees seem to whisper Louise...

TriciaF Tue 01-Nov-16 11:32:04

A very old one - Lullaby of the Leaves. My Mum used to sing it to me when I was very young.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rcgirw0inE

annifrance Tue 01-Nov-16 11:38:29

Underneath the mango tree my honey - I think from Dr No
Roses of Picardy
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine