STME58
693 posts
Mar 26, 2014
11:30 AM
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This morning I went to my favorite public practice spot in a mall before it opens. The acoustics there draw me back.
Today there was a crew planting flowers in the central planters. I played, Where Have All The Flowers gone, Delta Dawn (Whats that flower you have on), Inch by Inch (Row by row, gonna make this garden grow). If anyone noticed, they made no indication to me. I thought it was fun though. I could not think of any more flower or gardening reference songs.
Does anyone have any suggestions for flower of gardening songs that might be recognized without the lyrics being sung?
Last Edited by STME58 on Mar 26, 2014 11:30 AM
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Goldbrick
380 posts
Mar 26, 2014
12:57 PM
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Scarlet Begonias, Must have been the roses, Jennifer Juniper,Tip toe thru the tulips
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BronzeWailer
1247 posts
Mar 26, 2014
1:23 PM
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Sort of appropriate: Bicycle Built for Two, Build me up buttercup, Edelweiss, Rose Garden
BronzeWailer's YouTube
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timeistight
1528 posts
Mar 26, 2014
1:31 PM
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The Rose
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
San Antonio Rose
Send Me Dead Flowers
Red Roses for a Blue Lady
Yellow Rose of Texas
Good Year for the Roses
Dandelion
Cotton Fields
Ramblin' Rose
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Boll Weevil Blues
Digging My Potatoes
Cotton Crop Blues
Green Onions
Farmer's Song
Last Edited by timeistight on Mar 26, 2014 1:58 PM
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STME58
696 posts
Mar 26, 2014
9:52 PM
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Thanks guys, I know there were plenty of flower songs, a few of those mentioned I know but darned if I could think of them at the time!
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STME58
713 posts
Mar 31, 2014
12:00 AM
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I had another situation come up today and this time I got feedback that my musical message got across.
I was playing on a bench at Balboa Park when I guy promoting the exhibit at the Natural History Museum walked by in 17th century pirate garb. I played a couple of phrases from "A Pirates Life for Me". He stopped and said "thanks for that!", and told me a bit about his limited harp playing. I also got into a conversation with another of the promoters of the pirate exhibition in a similar manner. She told me that old Irish songs would be representative of pirates and she was in character as a female Irish pirate, Grace O'Malley, who turned to piracy after her maritime husband died and she had no other way of earning a living as a widow.
Playing the harp in public creates interesting opportunities for interaction with people.
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