Happy Butterfly 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 Sept 2012
2012

You have heard of Butterfly
waiting as the years pass by,
Do not think that in old Japan
ev'ry maiden waits for a man,
in the Lotus garden fair
'neath the blossoms hanging there
most girls have a lover gay
to sing this way.

My star 'neath the willow tree,
you are, little Japanee,
not like poor Butterfly.
Grey days you have never known,
Play days always were your own,
you don't pine and sigh.
Smiling you are never blue,
whiling ev'ry hour thru'
Love you will not deny
Sunshine in your laughter
names you ever after,
Happy Butterfly.

My star 'neath the willow tree,
you are, little Japanee,
not like poor Butterfly.
Grey days you have never known,
Play days always were your own,
you don't pine and sigh.
Smiling you are never blue,
whiling ev'ry hour thru'
Love you will not deny
Sunshine in your laughter
names you ever after,
Happy Butterfly.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Happy Butterfly 1920
Music by Joe Meyer
Lyrics by Bobbie Tremaine
© MCMXX by Jerome H. Remick & Co.  Detroit & New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 26 September 2012 at 17.52
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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