A 1913 song from The Tik-Tok Man of Oz.
Words by L. Frank Baum
Music by Louis F. Gottschalk
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- There’s a little flow’ret
Pretty little flow’ret
Nestling in the meadow green
Petals white and spreading
Golden center wedding
Daintier was never seen
Lovers come to gather
And to ask it whether
“She loves me or loves me not?”
Like a necromancer
Daisy gives the answer
Then the flow’r soon forgot
He loves me, she loves me not
She loves he, he loves me not
Daisy leaf, pray tell me true
Loves he me? Oh, tell me, do
She loves me, he loves me not
He loves me, she loves me not
Give me quick, the answer, pray
Loves she me? Oh, Daisy say
Refrain
Ask the flow’rs to tell you
And they’ll always tell you true
They’re the wisest little things
That mortals ever knew
When you’re puzzled or in doubt
Just seek the clever blossoms out
And ask the flow’rs to tell you
For they’ll always tell you true
- In the meadow hiding
Modest and confiding
Grows the golden Buttercup
Yellow hues reflecting
When, it’s glow expecting
To your chin you hold it up
Seeing is believing
So it’s not deceiving
When it tints your face with gold
Blissfully assuring
Happy and alluring
Is the message when it’s told
Buttercup, pray let me see
If your test, means joy to me
Love you butter? Then you’ll be
Fond and true, eternally
This the sign, well known of old
If you love, reflect the gold
But if not, a visage cold
O’er the flow’r, I will behold
- You may ask the roses
When your love proposes
“Is the answer Yes, or No?”
He’s no need to guess it
For they’ll quick confess it
By the color that they show
In her hair reposes
Reddest of the roses
If the maid will answer “Yes”
But a white rose choosing
Means she is refusing
And your suit you may not press
Roses red, have ever said
That the maid her love will wed
Roses white will Cupid fright
Lovers all, deplore the sight
So the maids, with careless grace
In their hair, the tokens place
And your fate, you quickly see
“Yes” or “No”, ‘Tis sure to be
Sung here by Vancha March: