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Title

Roses of Picardy

Authors

Frederic Edward Weatherly
Haydn Wood

Document Type

Score

Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_freddy-gardner-peter-yorke-and-his-concert-orchestra-wood_gbia0002826a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_george-girard-and-his-new-orleans-five-haydn-wood-george-girard-ja_gbia0003753b

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_george-shearing-quintet-wood-weatherly-george-shearing-chuck-wayne_gbia0026650a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_jesse-crawford-fred-e-weatherly-haydn-wood_gbia0033629b

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_jimmy-saunders-mandolin-orch.-joe-sgro-weatherly-wood_gbia0004266a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_jo-stafford-paul-weston-and-his-orchestra-haydn-wood-fred-e-weath_gbia0018452a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_john-mccormack-fred-e.-weatherly-haydn-wood_gbia0003612a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_john-mccormack-fred-e.-weatherly-haydn-wood_gbia0010959a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_john-mccormack-fred-f-weatherly-hayden-wood_gbia0019689a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_lambert-murphy-fred-e-weatherly-haydn-wood_gbia0033314a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_lambert-murphy-weatherly-wood_gbia0016612a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_master-melody-makers_gbia0010656a

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy_perry-como-fred-r-weatherly-haydn-wood-russ-case-and-his-orchestr_gbia0019889b

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy-rosas-de-picardy_bob-harins-velvetone-orchestra-hayden-wood_gbia0005507b

https://archive.org/details/78_roses-of-picardy-rosas-de-picardy_the-troubadours-haydn-wood_gbia0016022a

Publication Date

1916

Comments

Roses of Picardy

Song

Words by Fred. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly

Music by Haydn Wood

London: Chappell & Co. ; New York: Chappell-Harms (1916)

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
She is watching by the poplars,
Colinette with the sea-blue eyes,
She is watching and longing and waiting
Where the long white roadway lies.
And a song stirs in the silence,
As the wind in the boughs above,
She listens and starts and trembles,
‘Tis the first little song of love:

[Chorus]
“Roses are shining in Picardy, in the hush of the sliver dew,
Roses are flow’ring in Picardy, but there’s never a rose like you!
And the roses will die with the summertime, and our roads may be far apart,
But there’s one rose that dies not in Picardy! ‘tis the rose that I keep in my heart!”

[Verse 2]
And the years fly on forever,
Till the shadows veil their skies,
But he loves to hold her little hands,
And look in her sea-blue eyes.
And she sees the road by the poplars,
Where they met in the bygone years,
For the first little song of the roses
Is the last little song she hears:

[Chorus]

Recommended Citation

Weatherly, Frederic Edward and Wood, Haydn, "Roses of Picardy" (1916). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1225.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1225