A popular song from 1906.
Words by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Beneath the linden boughs fair in their summer green
You spoke the lover’s vows that crown’d me as your queen
Beneath the linden boughs the story old was told
Oh! will it seem but a summer’s dream
Seem a dream when linden leaves are gold
Chorus
If you care for me as you say you do
Won’t you wear for me just this knot of blue
Sign of love that’s true, wear it e’re we part
This and more I give to you, with it take my heart
If you care for me oh do
Wear this little know of blue
Sign of love that’s true, wear it e’re we part
This and more I give to you, with it take my heart
2. Along the woodland way the place where first we met
With thought of you I’ll stray ah, me, will you forget?
And when the Autumn gale o’er field and forest grieves
Will each dear word that the lindens heard
Each dear word fade like the linden leaves
Sung here by Fred Feild: