A song from 1846
music by A. B. Meek
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
- I loved, in boyhood’s happy time
When life was like a minstrel’s rhyme
And cloudless as my native clime
The Rose of Alabama
Chorus
Oh! lovely Rose, the Rose of Alabama
The sweetest flower earth knows
Is the rose of Alabama
The sweetest flower earth knows
Is the Rose of Alabama
- One pleasant, balmy night in June
When swung in silvery floods, the moon
My heart awoke love’s vesper tune
For Rose of Alabama - She caught the strain, and to the bower
Impelled by love and music’s power
Stole like and angel at that hour
The Rose of Alabama - Beside me there her from she placed
My arm stole gently round her waist
And earth seemed with new beauty graced
By Rose of Alabama - The breeze and streamlet ceased their tune
Like winged gems the fireflies shone
The flowers gazed envious on my own
Sweet Rose of Alabama - ‘Tis vain our mutual vows to tell
One strain upon my plaintive shell
And then I bade a sad farewell
To Rose of Alabama - Long years have past; by fortune driven
I wander’ neath a stranger heaven
But ah! love’s ties are not yet riven
From Rose of Alabama - Hope smiles upon my pilgrim way
Ere long, my feet shall homeward stray
And time bring ’round my nuptial day
With Rose of Alabama - Then, shrine-like, in my native land
Love’s Eden, shall my cottage stand
With happiness on every hand
Sweet Rose of Alabama
Sung here by Fred Feild: