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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

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.."

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

"Lily the Pink" - Scaffold

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

The Oak and the Ash.
Banks of Green Willow.

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

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

Grannyknot Tue 01-Nov-16 08:10:19

This was one of my mother's favourites (not sure whether a hymn is suitable):

"I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses, and he walks with me and he talks with me ..." etc. It comes up if you Google the lyrics.

The Chestnut Tree Glenn Miller:

www.karaoke-lyrics.net/lyrics/miller-glenn/the-chestnut-tree-398106

"Underneath the spreading chestnut tree, I love her and she loves me .."

Grannyknot Tue 01-Nov-16 08:04:44

fiorentina the tally man song is "Day-O". I love it.

gillybob Tue 01-Nov-16 07:59:23

Hello summertime by Bobby Goldsboro

Birds and bees and all the flowers and trees
And Fishes on the line..........

Kiss from a rose by Seal

Bed of roses by Bon Jovi

Every rose has it's thorn by Poison

Lilac wine by Elkie brooks or Jeff Buckley

You don't bring me flowers by Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond

flowers

Luckygirl Tue 01-Nov-16 07:47:09

These are brilliant - thank you so much!

Love the Tommy Cooper!

janeainsworth Tue 01-Nov-16 06:24:59

Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

BBbevan Tue 01-Nov-16 05:28:50

Cherry pink and Apple Blossom white ( Eddie Calvert )

Daisy, Daisy

fiorentina51 Tue 01-Nov-16 05:12:23

Oh Christmas tree.
Don't sit under the apple tree.
Lilac Wine.

fiorentina51 Tue 01-Nov-16 05:06:24

Hearts of oak.
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree.

That calypso style one that goes....
"Come Mr Tally Man, tally me bananas. Daylight come and me wanna go home."

Only a rose.

Culag Tue 01-Nov-16 04:59:24

Eliza Carthy - Willow tree

pensionpat Tue 01-Nov-16 00:17:06

Tulips From Amsterdam. Max Bygraves

Eloethan Tue 01-Nov-16 00:06:59

The Rose Bette Midler
Lemon Tree Peter Paul and Mary
Kiss from a Rose Seal
Where have all the flowers gone Pete Seeger
Flowers in the Rain The Move
Days of wine and roses Henry Mancini Singers
You don't bring me flowers Neil Diamond

Rosieroe Mon 31-Oct-16 23:59:44

The Rose - Bette Midler

Rosieroe Mon 31-Oct-16 23:45:43

Green Grow the Rushes O

Rosieroe Mon 31-Oct-16 23:41:28

Build Me Up Buttercup

merlotgran Mon 31-Oct-16 23:24:08

Tommy Cooper's classic.

'Don't jump off the roof, Dad
You'll make a hole in the yard
Mother's just planted petunias
The weeding and seeding was hard

If you must end it all, Dad
Won't you please give us a break
Just take a walk down the park, Dad
And there you can jump in the lake.'

Nelliemoser Mon 31-Oct-16 23:17:24

The flower song from Carmen!
I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch.
Will you go lassie go.
We'll gather lilacs.
Roses are shining in Picardy.
Have songs to cover all age groups I suppose.

merlotgran Mon 31-Oct-16 23:00:07

Noooooooo. I'll be banned. blush

janeainsworth Mon 31-Oct-16 22:55:53

What's the rugby version shockshock

janeainsworth Mon 31-Oct-16 22:55:02

The Holly and the Ivy

merlotgran Mon 31-Oct-16 22:54:50

X posts janea grin

merlotgran Mon 31-Oct-16 22:54:09

There's always The Ash Grove but make sure it's not the rugby version! grin