Forget-Me-Not 1919 Kern

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 09 Jun 2006
2006

Just a bunch of oldtime flowers,
wet with dew
taken from the woodland bowers
we once knew.
I have made it quite complete for
Mignonette is in the lot:
Then there is a spray of sweet forgetmenot.

Just a half confession
I could not withhold;
Just a faint expression of a love untold;
Hyacinth, the air perfuming,
shy, verbena lately blooming
by the myrtle, unassuming
tell me, will he know who brought you?
From the scented wildwood
once our fav'rite spot
That old haunt of childhood
that we ne'er forgot,
see that when he gets this token
he will read the old unspoken
message of the sweet forgetmenot.

Just a half confession
I could not withhold;
Just a faint expression of a love untold;
Hyacinth, the air perfuming,
shy, verbena lately blooming
by the myrtle, unassuming
tell me, will he know who brought you?
From the scented wildwood
once our fav'rite spot
That old haunt of childhood
that we ne'er forgot,
see that when he gets this token
he will read the old unspoken
message of the sweet forgetmenot.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Forget-Me-Not 1919 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Bud De Sylva
© MCMXIX by T.B.Harms Co.  N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 09 June 2006 at 09.41
in association with Doug Grierson
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