Your Own Lyrics
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Lynn Whitehead has created the activity to write a new verse for a well-known song.
Activity
Based on what you see when you walk out of your home into your village or town, write some lyrics to fit with the tune and pattern of ‘An English Country Garden’.
We’ve printed the verse here, so that you can look at where the rhymes come, which line is a repeat and (roughly) how many beats there are in each line.
You can be as serious or silly as you like – but accentuate the positive.
You will need
An English Country Garden
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We’ll tell you now of some that we know,
Those we miss you’ll surely pardon.
Daffodils, heart’s ease and phlox,
Meadowsweet and lady smocks,
Gentian, lupin and tall hollyhocks,
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops,
Blue forget-me-nots,
In an English country garden.
Here’s my bash at a few lines…
Out of my window I can see a spire,
In the ancient town of Bury.
The point reaches high, it couldn’t go much higher,
At the top it must be scary.
Pigeons think it’s such a gift,
It’s also home for many swifts,
When I’ve been away, it gives my heart a lift.
Many tourists they stop
And take a snap of it,
In the ancient town of Bury.
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