Safe in My Garden

"Safe in My Garden"
Single by The Mamas and the Papas
from the album The Papas & The Mamas
A-side "Safe in My Garden"
Released 1968
Format grammophone record
Genre folk rock
Writer(s) John Phillips
The Mamas and the Papas chronology
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"
(1967)		 "Safe in My Garden"
(1968)		 "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
(1968)

Safe in My Garden is a song written by John Phillips, and recorded by The Mamas and the Papas.

The song was also recorded in Swedish, as "En dag i juni", with lyrics by Britt Lindeborg. The Family Four recorded the song as a B-side for the single Kör långsamt (Cab Driver), released in November 1968.[1] and on the 1969 album Kör långsamt.[2] With these lyrics, the song was recorded by Thorleifs, releasing it as a single in 1973[3] and on the 1974 album with the same name[4] The Swedish-language lyrics have an environmental-political message, tackling mankind 's ways of dealing with planet Earth.[5]

Chart trajectory

Chart (1968) Peak position
USA 53[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Kör långsamt". Svensk mediedatabas. 1968. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Kör långsamt" (in Swedish). Svensk meidedatabas. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "En dag i juni" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1973. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "En dag i juni" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 1974. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "I afton dans med Thorleifs" (in Swedish). Industrifacket. 21 November 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  6. ↑ "1968". Billboard. 1968. Retrieved 15 May 2011.

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