A popular song from 1908.
words by Alex Rogers
music by Will Marion Cook
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I know my love awaits me
In a red, red rose
For each one seems to greet me
And to tell me that it knows
Just where my love will meet me
Just where the truant grows
And each I pluck, I kiss and whisper
Tell me red, red rose
Chorus
Are you my love, O! red rose speak to me
Tell me, red rose, that I may cling to thee
Breathe just one word that I may know ’tis thee
That I may love thee through eternity
If you are not my love, O! red, red rose
Then won’t you tell me just which red rose knows
Where is my love, O! tell me where is my love
O! tell me red, red rose
- I care not if the lily fair or violet blue
Should whisper that my love
My red rose is to me untrue
The birds that sing at dawning
Each passing breeze that blows
They tell me that my love awaits me
In a red, red rose
Sung here by Fred Feild: