A 1919 popular song. Featured in the Broadway Revue, “HITCHY-KOO OF 1919.”
Words and Music by Cole Porter.
Arranged by Charles N. Grant.
Copyright ©30 Aug 1919.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Player piano roll accompaniment scanned by Terry Smythe:
LYRICS:
[Verse]
One summer day I chanced to stray
To a garden of flow’rs blooming wild,
It took me once more
To the dear days of yore
And a spot that I loved as a child;
There were the phlox, tall hollyhocks,
Violets perfuming the air,
Frail eglantines, shy columbines,
And marigolds everywhere.
[Refrain]
It was an old fashioned garden,
Just an old fashioned garden,
But it carried me back
To that dear little shack
In the land of long ago.
I saw an old fashioned missus
Getting old fashioned kisses,
In that old fashioned garden
From an old fashioned beau.