(©John Adler ?)
It's a place where the Hobbits go
It's a place where the Elves all sing
It's a place where the Dwarves all play
The only place where you want to stay
Gandalf's Garden
Gandalf's Garden
He was called Mithrandir, Tharkûn, Incánus and Stormcrow,
Gandalf Greyhame, Lathspell and Olórin.
He was the enemy of Sauron, he was the Grey Fool.
The Men of the North called him Gandalf.
It's a place where the Hobbits go
It's a place where the Elves all sing
It's a place where the Dwarves all play
The only place where you want to stay
Gandalf's Garden
Gandalf's Garden
Comments
"Gandalf's Garden was a shop down by the World's End in Chelsea, run by a commune of flower-children held together by Muz Murray. It flourished for a while at the high end of the Sixties, but eventually they found Chelsea too constricting and moved out to Norfolk or somewhere. For all I know they may be there still (see below): there was a documentary on TV about them a few years ago. I never visited the shop (I was living in America at the time) but I did read the magazine. Gandalf's Garden - the magazine - was a fascinating mixture of way out and mystical stuff (which nowadays we would call 'New Age') with down to earth items and contact addresses. It was printed in different colours of ink and paper, and some of the combinations could have been better chosen (orange on gold, for example)." Read whole article.
NOTE: Twink's attribution of this song to the Never Never Land demo has been viewed with a great deal of scepticism by the rest of the PF community - indeed widely regarded as a fraud (Twink has a bad reputation for this sort of thing.)