*** The original of this (‘The Lord God made a garden’) was written for the Mothers’ Union of St Thomas’ Peartree, Derby, to sing on Mothering Sunday 1979; but I failed to keep a copy. The content here is as the original, but most of the text is newly composed. The tune is the same, though with harmony now added.

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The Most High made a garden.midi

The Arboretum, in the next-door parish of St James’, Derby, is the oldest municipally-funded park in England.