The Rose In My Garden Of Dreams

A ballad from the year 1914.
Words and music by Will. L. Livernash.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:

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Lyrics

1. Where the violets lie dreaming
   In the moonlight softly gleaming
   Waiting there, beauty rare
   Queen of the garden
   ‘Tis my love I see in fancy
   Like a rose so fair
   In the garden of my dreams
   She’s waiting there

Chorus
The rose in my garden of twilight dreams
The rose of my reveries
Each petal disclosing, a virtue reposing
A message of love it brings to me
The air’s fill’d with fragrance
A perfume rare
A breath from the heaven ‘twould seem
I’ll guard the bower of my cherish’d flower
The rose in my garden of dreams

2. All the time for you I’m sighing
   Night and day my heart is crying
   Could you learn, how I yearn
   Just to caress you
   Like the white rose love defying
   Kiss’d by morning dew
   Fairest flower in love’s bower
   You, just you

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Sung here by Vancha March: