a 1928 popular song
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Fred Feild:
Lyrics
Where are the roses of yesterday
Where are the flowers that bloomed in May
Where are the skies that were blue
Where are the joys that I knew
Gone with the roses of yesterday
Chorus
Roses of yesterday faded and thrown away
Love is a pale bouquet of yesterday’s roses
Roses were once in bloom here in my lonely room
Now there’s a faint perfume of yesterday’s roses
Roses of crimson red faded when love was dead
Quickly the summer fled and winter discloses
That it was not to be and all that’s left for me
Is a sweet memory of yesterday’s roses
Sung here by Vancha March: