A popular song from 1917
Words by Geo. A. Little
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- There’s a story I learned in a garden
While I looked at a beautiful rose
I compared this sweet flower with a Girlie
And the story now every one knows
For I plucked its bower this flower
Cast it down by the roadside to die
Tho’ it gave its last beautiful token
The rose seemed to look up and sigh
Refrain:
Picture each game that you played when a child
Try to think how your dear mother smiled
As she’d kiss and forgive you, when right or wrong
You made her life one sweet song
Then picture how some mothers feel
When the game we call love will reveal
That you’ve taken a pearl
From some fond mother’s world
When you play with the heart of a girl
- Once again now I walk through this garden
Once again now I dream of the past
Where a pledge to a rose I had broken
In a love I said always would last
Could I bring back that frivolous hour
With my soul I’d be willing to pay
For each teardrop I’d shower devotion
If I’d never heard that rose say
Sung by Vancha March: