(To Make You a Wonderful Girl)
A popular song from 1917
Words by Al. J. Palmer and Joe McCarthy
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- ‘Twas in an old Virginia town
The Summer moon was shining down
Just like an angel you came to me
Filling my soul with ecstasy
The love that shone within your eyes
Just seemed to have my hypnotized
I’ve looked everywhere, but none can compare
You’re like the rose that never dies
Chorus:
It took the bright blue skies of Dixie
To make you bloom so sweet and fair
It took a southern rose
From where the cotton grows
To make the roses in your cheeks so rare
It took a dear old southern mammy
To teach you songs you did not know
It took the sunshine from old Dixieland
To make you a wonderful girl
- You’ve never caused me to regret
That Summer night when we first met
There in the moonlight strolling along
Life seemed so sweet with love’s old song
For since I looked up on your smile
I seem to see it all the while
And I know it’s true, that you, only you
Have made Virginia worth my while