Historic Sheet Music Collection

Authors

Cole Porter

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1919

Comments

MacIntosh Collection

New York: T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter (1919)

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
One summer I chanced to stray
To a garden of flow’rs blooming wild,
It took me once more
To the dear days of yore
And a spot that I loved as a child;
There were the phlox, tall hollyhocks,
Violets perfuming the air,
Frail eglantines, shy columbines,
And marigolds everywhere.

[Refrain]
It was an old fashioned garden
Just an old fashioned garden
But it carried me back
To that dear little shack In the land of long ago.
I saw an old fashioned Missus getting old fashioned kisses
In that old fashioned garden
From an old fashioned beau.

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