English Country Garden

Here's the original bird verse.

How many songbirds fly to and fro

Through our English country garden?

I'll tell you now of some that I know

And those I miss you'll surely pardon

Bobolink, cuckoo and quail

Tanager and cardinal

Bluebird, lark, thrush and nightingale

There is joy in the spring

When the birds begin to sing

In an English country garden

(In an English country garden)

I don't think Jimmie Rodgers consulted an ornithologist.