From the 1922 musical comedy “The Cabaret Girl”.
words by P. G. Wodehouse and Anne Caldwell
music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- It was golden summer weather
The skies were a-blaze
As we wandered there together
In the sunlit garden ways
Merrily their songs of welcome
Birds trilled in each tree
The roses knew that their queen was nigh
They bowed their heads as she passed them by
On that day when first she came to me
Refrain
There she stood in a world of roses
Eyes a-dreaming and sweet cheeks a-glow
Breezes playing went a-straying
Through her tresses with soft caresses
All around, with their petals gleaming
Shone the roses in a brave array
But the first rose that blooms in summer
Was not so lovely as her face that day
- When the burning day was over
Like some sweet refrain
Came a fragrant scent of clover
From the meadows down the lane
Shadows o’er the lawn went creeping
And dark grew the sky
The roses slept with their petals furled
We seemed alone in a magic world
All alone together, she and I
Refrain
There we stood in a world of roses
‘Neath the shy light of the sickle moon
Birds were sleeping, stars were peeping
In the gloaming the bats were roaming
All around in the dewy twilight
All the roses hid their heads away
But the first rose that blooms in summer
Was not so lovely as her face that day
Sung here by Fred Feild: