The Dorothy Perkins Rose 1930

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 Feb 2010
2010

Who was Dorothy Perkins?
I wonder if anyone knows!
Oh, how pretty she must have been
to give her name to a rose.
Renown dies out like a candle,
Great men sink to their dooms;
But Dorothy Perkin's fame shall last
so long as a garden blooms.

Was she wondrous clever?
Had she wisdom and power?
Or did she do nothing at all but die
And leave her name to a flower?
What are triumph and glory
That cease like the rattle of drums?
Better to live as the roses live
Whenever the summer comes.

For she returns with the swallows,
Her mem'ry blossoms anew,
When rosebuds tap on the window pane,
Out in the morning dew.
Who was Dorothy Perkins?
What though nobody knows?
She shall be loved and remembered still
Wherever a garden grows.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Dorothy Perkins Rose 1930
Music by Molly Carew
Lyrics by Almey St.John Adcock
© MCMXXX by Chappell & Co.Ltd. - London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 4 February 2010 at 12.16
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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