Guitar chords with lyrics
Intro:FF
C majorC
Bb majorBb
DmDm
Bb majorBb
DmDm
G minorGm Verse:
FF Once upon a time I found a garden
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC Picked the brightest things that I could see
FF An apron full of Mister Harding's flowers
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC And I didn't know that he was watching me
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 Straight away my mother ran to tell him
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 Wondering what he would say or do
FF
A minorAm
Bb majorBb Mister Harding smiled and said, "She's just a little child
FF
C majorC
FF I knew that she'd be picking them for you"
Verse:FF By the fire, dad would tell me stories
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC One of them concerned a garden too
FF Where the lion and the lamb lay down together
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC And every lovely fruit and flower grew
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 The gardener sent his children in to play there
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 Rejoicing in the brightness of the day
FF
A minorAm
Bb majorBb But when they went exploring and took a fruit to taste
FF
C majorC
FF He cursed them both and sent them on their way Bridge:
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
G minorGm
FF Even then I realised in my childish mind
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC
FF
C majorC
Bb majorBb
FF That he wasn't a proper gardener of the Mister Harding kind Verse:
FF Mister Harding's garden was all taken
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC By lesser men with concrete in their minds
FF Factory chimneys grew instead of daisies
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC No butterflies from that assembly line
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 My mother faded faster than a flower
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 Dad sat in the darkness and cried
FF
A minorAm
Bb majorBb Mister Harding moves a little slower than before
FF
C majorC
FF But still he tends the grave where they both lie Bridge:
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
G minorGm
FF Wherever it is they've gone to, I hope that they will find
Bb majorBb
FF
C majorC
FF
C majorC
Bb majorBb
FF
A augmentedA proper sort of garden of the Mister Harding kind Verse:
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 The foolish woman sometimes feels despairing
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
Gm7Gm7 Thinks it seems so very hard to find
FF
A minorAm
Bb majorBb The child tries to plant a little, everywhere she goes
FF
C majorC
FF That special love of the Mister Harding kind Bridge:
Bb majorBb
A minorAm
G minorGm
FF Someday when I'm older, maybe I will find
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FF
C majorC
FF
C majorC
Bb majorBb
FF That I've grown into a gardener of the Mister Harding kind
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'A Proper Sort Of Gardener' by June Tabor, a female folk artist from Warwick, GB. June Tabor was born in 1947.