A popular song from 1906
Words by Olive L. Frields
Music by Harry L. Newman
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- In a garden strolled a youth and pretty maiden
He had asked her hand and won his lady fair
Then pausing in a nook all flower laden
He plucked a rose and placed it in her hair
“You are my own, no one our love can sever
I crown you queen with this bright rose of red
My heart is yours to rule, sweetheart, forever”
Then holding her within his arms he said
Chorus:
“Like the rose, you’re the fairest flower
And my heart it beats for you
To me it seems that Heaven
Beams within your eyes of blue
Like the rose of love and beauty
That grows in cupid’s bower
No other there with you can compare
Like the rose, you’re the fairest flower”
- It is Autumn and again the same two lovers
They are strolling in the garden as of old
The shining moon above the hilltop hovers
It’s rays have turned the leaves to green and gold
“When the winter snows have fallen on the flowers
We’ll be happy in a cottage by the way
Just like the birds that nestle in the bowers
Once more, sweetheart these words to you I’ll say