Nodding Roses 1916 'Very Good Eddie'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 07 Mar 2005

Though my answer you entreat,
my lips seem helpless to repeat
the words my heart would say.
Words are all such empty things
when love comes to your heart and brings
its cloudless summer day.
How then shall I answer?
What would you promise?
Tell me in the language of the rose.

Roses nodding to and fro
answer 'yes' and 'no.'
To vex perhaps perplex
the hearts of breezes
that plead soft and low
if you really love me dear
nod and tell me so.
My lips say 'yes' although
my head is nodding, nodding 'no.'

What a little girl should say
to clear her sweetheart's doubt away
is not so hard to guess.
Now you're talking common sense
and life for me would just commence
were you to answer yes.
But of all the methods
which do you propose?
Why not take a lesson from the rose

Roses nodding seem to say
answer me today.
Make haste, make haste,
no time to waste
or love will be speeding away.
Blushing red just nod your head
little girl confess
I'll answer you like roses do
by nodding, nodding 'yes!'

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Nodding Roses 1916 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Schuyler Greene & Herbert Reynolds
from "Very Good Eddie"
© MCMXVI by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 07 March 2005 at 16.50
in association with Doug Grierson
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