Top 5 – Songs with some (tenuous) link to gardening

Now this is a bit of an indulgent list and obviously highly subjective, so subjective that if I was asked tomorrow I might come up with an entirely different list.  But today this is what I want to listen to.

Another Sunny Day – Belle & Sebastian.

Perfect song and top of the list because not only do I love it, today was sunny but best of all it includes the lyrics:

Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden

You were digging plants, I dug  you, beg your pardon

I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border

It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees

How could you not love a song that references herbaceous borders?

My second choice also includes the words beg your pardon – it would appear people who write songs which mention plants are also very polite.

I never promised you a Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson.

As I’ve grown older my tastes have become more and more country and this is one of my favourite traditional country songs.

Although my third choice doesn’t beg anyone’s pardon whatsoever it is still good.

Cattle and Cane – The Go Betweens

The Go-Betweens are my favourite band of all-time and this is one of my favourite of their songs.  The cane refers to sugar cane which is extensively grown in their native Queensland.

Harvest Moon – Neil Young

This was one of my nieces favourite songs when she was 3.  I feel her tastes have probably deteriorated since.  One Direction anyone?  Anyway when she was 3 she had a discerning ear – this is one of my favourite Neil Young songs (and there are many).  Unfortunately the link to gardening is fairly tenuous but then it was fairly tenuous with the above 3 as well…

Lime Tree Arbour – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

I’ve loved Nick Cave since my uni days (and yes the late 1980s were quite a while ago. Are the 80s vintage yet? or merely retro?). I kind of feel like he has matured as I have. This is from the first of his more mellow albums – A Boatman’s Call.

What would make your Top 5?*

* Please note that I  reserve the right to ridicule any suggestion that Agadoo (Push pineapple, shake the Tree) would make anyone’s Top Anything.