From the recording "The Selfish Giant"
The Giant says, "The children are the most beautiful flowers in my garden." And what a garden it is now.
Lyrics
Dancing in daisies and up in the trees
Were dozens of girls and boys
There in the grass on hands and knees
The giant’s face beamed with joy
While children were playing things started to bloom
Everything came so green
Soon it became
A garden of fame
The most beautiful ever seen
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When people were going to market at noon
They got such a sweet surprise
They stopped and they stared
Nothing compared
To the wonder that met their eyes
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All day long they played
And in the evening they
Came sadly to bid him goodbye
“Come again,” he’d say
“You won’t keep us away”
And it was so hard not to cry
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