Sunday, April 05, 2009

the Garden Song



I searched YouTube for some Sunday fun for you - and then I fell for this clip from an old Muppet Show where John Denver sing "the Garden Song" (he's wearing socks with his sandals - I thought this was a typical swedish style). I can't remember when a song went straight to the heart like this one does. Don't ask me why. This gives you a few singing flowers too, and I swear I hear something like this from my container when I've watered with bokashi fluid - that stuff is powerful!

4 comments:

Laura said...

I remember watching that when it was first on tv. Thank you for posting it!

Rosengeranium said...

You're welcome! I remember seeing "Grandma's feather bed" in muppet version when I was a kid, but I had completely forgotten this one. Perhaps that's why it struck so clear.

Kenneth Moore said...

hm, I get teased about wearing socks with sandals... Then I lived in Germany, and no one questioned it (although it was less popular among the younger generation). I do not know why people in the U.S. think it's a faux pas, but some of us prefer it. I'd rather go barefoot than wear footwear without socks!

Actually, I'd just rather go barefoot, period. But I don't. :-(

Also... The muppets have always scared me. I had a bad muppet-related experience as a child. I screamed whenever Sesame Street came on!

Rosengeranium said...

Socks in sandals seems to be a germanic treat then - Sweden has been heavy influenced by Germany for quite a while. (Roald Dahl called swedes for germans with heart, and I still can't decide if that was a compliment and something else.)

I think it's easy to get a bad muppet experience. I showed my son (who only speaks swedish) Cookie Monster on YouTube - a clip that hadn't been dubbed. And when you see Cookie Monster for the first time not understanding what he says he turns into a violent, grunting monster in the true sense. The thing didn't get better by the fact that we were watching a clip where he eats parts of a bakery, 'nibbling' himself along to the understanding of 'm'...