Botanical Gardens - Don McLean

I leave the noise and the dark city canyons

And walk through gates of wrought iron black

There lies a world that’s transformed before me

When I arrive will I ever go back

I take a walk in botanical gardens

And look for the faces of the pretty young girls

Just like the flowers that bloom all around me

I fall in love in this colorful world

You might go walking and thinking of nothing

Perhaps your love life is caught in a bind

There in a flowery dress in the sunlight

You’ll find somebody who will change your mind

She’s haunting me and she losing my memory

That beautiful face with perfume in the air

She brushes my arm and smiles ever faintly

A famine and vision with the sun in her hair

We might go walking hand in hand in the garden

And cross the bridge when it’s starting to rain

And then go laughing and looking for shelter

And find a feeling that you can’t explain

The colorful birds in botanical gardens

All fly away to a breezy lagoon

Where lovers can swim in the warm summer waters

Surrounded by flowers and the light of the moon

It’s getting late and the gates will be closing

Shall I remain or go back to the world

Shall I remain in botanical gardens

Surrounded by flowers and those beautiful girls

Shall I remain in botanical garden

Surrounded by flowers and those beautiful girls

I love those flowers and those beautiful girls

I dig those flowers and those beautiful girls