(Make It Rosy For Me)
A popular song from 1920
Words by Grant Clarke
Music by J. L. Merkur
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Dear, I know it, every poet
Writes about a rose
I’m no poet and you know it
That my writing shows
Every time I start to rhyme
I have to rub it out
But still here goes ’cause
You’re the rose I’ve got to write about
Chorus
Rosie, make it rosy for me
Sweet Rosie, oh, how glad I would be
If only you would care for me, too
I’m lonely for only you
Just like a posie
You grow sweeter each day
Sweet Rosie, help me raise a bouquet
I need a branch or two on my family tree
Rosie, come marry me
- Harry Meyer, he’s a buyer
Who can pick a gown
Rosie, she’s a model
For a clothing house in town
Twice a year he travels here
To get the latest styles
And when the bunch goes out to lunch
He says to Rose and smiles
Chorus
Rosie, you are working too hard
Sweet Rosie, you grew up in a yard
Oh, Why be just a model for life
When you ‘d make a model wife
You’re like a posie
I once picked in the woods
Sweet Rosie, I’m a good judge of goods
So, tell the boss
That he don’t need you no more
Rosie, come marry me
- He said, “Rosie, just supposie
We get married dear
You can model clothing
For the baby every year
Be my wife ’cause that’s the life
The only one that pays
Just take your time, make up your mind
I’ll give you sixty days
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: