This song was first released on the Whose Garden Was This? Album. It is the only album it has been released on. I wish I could have been there on the highway When the people came from miles around to see The children of the flowers come together I wish I could have been there in the sunshine With the sound of lovely laughter in the air And the music makers first began to play To hear them play And I wish I could have been there in the rain When the clouds were full of castles in the sky And I wish I could have heard the people sing As the rhytmn and the words came floating by I wish I could have been there in the starlight When the country side was trying once again And the music and the makers the poets and the singers And the children of the flowers have all gone Words and music by John Denver