If You Were A Big Red Rose

A popular song from 1909.
Words and music by Charles X. O’Brien.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. In a garden fair, fill’d with roses rare
   On a Summer Day
   Is a girl and boy, fill’d with youthful joy
   On a Summer Day
   Now, most ev’ry one knows, who’se at all used to beaux
   On a Summer Day
   That down on his knees, in the shade of the trees
   Kneels this young lover to say

Chorus
If “You were a Big Red Rose,” he said
“Then I’d be a honey Bee
This garden would then be a Paradise
For such lovers as you and me
Oh I would feed, on the nectar sweet
As forth from your lips it flows
I’d choose the life of a honey Bee
If You were a Big Red Rose.”

2. Years have roll’d along, since he sung that song
   On a Summer Day
   And the maiden fair, with her golden hair
   Is aged and gray
   But true to that day, in the past far away
   On a Summer Day
   Again on his knees, in the shade of the trees
   Kneels this old lover to say

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