Lyrics to
Whose Garden Was This?

This version of Whose Garden Was This? was released by John Denver in 1970.

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Whose garden was this? It must have been lovely. Did it have flowers?
I’ve seen pictures of flowers, and I’d love to have smelled one.
Whose river was this? You say it ran freely. Blue was it’s color.
I’ve seen blue in some pictures, and I’d love to have been there.

Tell me again I need to know. The forest had trees, the meadows were green.
The oceans were blue and birds really flew. Can you swear that it’s true?

Whose gray sky was this? Or was it a blue one? You say there were breezes.
I’ve heard records of breezes and I’d love to have felt one.

Tell me again I need to know. The forest had trees, the meadows were green.
The oceans were blue and birds really flew. Can you swear that it’s true?

Whose garden was this? It must have been lovely. Did it have flowers?
I’ve seen pictures of flowers, and I’d love to have smelled one.
Tell me again I need to know, tell me again I need to know.
Tell me again I need to know, tell me again I need to know.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides Whose Garden Was This?. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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About Lyrics and Whose Garden Was This? by John Denver

The lyrics for Whose Garden Was This? are defined as the words making up the song released by John Denver in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Whose Garden Was This? have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only John Denver and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Whose Garden Was This? by John Denver if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Whose Garden Was This?" means the words set to the music of Whose Garden Was This?, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Whose Garden Was This? and the lyrics to Whose Garden Was This? are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Whose Garden Was This?, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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