A popular song from 1911.
Words by James E. Dempsey.
Music by Johann C. Schmid.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You have called me your garden of roses most fair
But when summer is over, she sighed
When the sweet leaves have fallen
Unveiling the thorns
Will you love me? and he replied
Chorus
If the garden of roses should change to thorns
The garden’s charm would still remain
While roses have brought only happiness
And thorns, dear, perhaps would bring pain
‘Tis only a heart that is tried and true
Can love the thorns and roses, too
The garden of roses may change into thorns
But the garden would still mean you
- Ev’ry rose is a symbol the same as the thorn
One means gladness, the other means pain
And the heart that loves truly
Will cling to the thorns
‘Till the sweet roses bloom again