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Whose Garden Was This? 
Whose Garden Was This? (Tom Paxton) 
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 its color I've seen blue ones on pictures 
And you tell me you've been there 
Ch.: Ah, 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 was true? 
Whose grey sky was this? Or was it a blue one? Nights there were breezes I've heard records of breezes And you tell me you've felt one? 
Whose forest was this? And why is it empty? You say there were bird songs And squirrels in the branches But why is it silent 
Ch.: 
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 Copyright United Artists Music 
recorded on "The Very Best Of Tom Paxton" (1986). Tom wrote this song in 1969 for the first ecological teach-in at North-Western University in Evanston, Illinois. This makes it one of the very first ecological songs 
at large. MJ But see Monongahela Sal, some 20 years earlier RG 
MJ