A popular song from 1920.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Abe Olman.
Song suggested by Laurence Rubenstein.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Sweetheart, sweetheart, I send this rose
My message of love to impart
Sweetheart, sweetheart, each petal knows
The longings that dwell in my heart
And tho’ my lips may conceal them
This fragrant rose can reveal them
Refrain
Ask the rose, ask the rose
To disclose what it knows
Secrets softly spoken
In her charms repose
Love untold to unfold
This red rose I chose
And if you doubt my love for you
Just ask the rose
- Sweetheart, sweetheart, where there’s a rose
There’s always a token of you
Sweetheart, sweetheart, none but the rose
Can tell you if my love is true
Oft to my lips I have press’d it
As tho ’twere you, I’ve caress’d it
Sung here by Fred Feild: