a 1922 popular song
words by Francis De Witt, from the Chinese of Su Tung Po
music by Robert Hood Bowers
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
There’s a wall by a bright sunny stream
Hidden there, just a frail flower I seem
Sun is red: shaded flower fades away
Ne’er a beam cheers my day
Refrain
Love is warm, like the sun’s happiness
I’m a flower, and I crave its caress
Shadowed wall: petals fall, ere I die
Why must love pass me by?
Sung here by Fred Feild: