From the 1932 film “Two Girls and a Sailor”
words and music by Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias and Jules Lemare
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There’s sweetness in the call
Of the woodland dove
As his love song echoes thru the trees
There’s sweetness in the rose
With its symbol of love
Floating on a summer breeze
But nothing can compare
To the sweetness of
The one and only one I love
Chorus
Sweet and lovely
Sweether than the roses in May
Sweet and lovely
Heaven must have sent her my way
Skies above me
Never were as blue as her eyes
And she loves me
Who would want a sweeter surprise
When she nestles in my arms so tenderly
There’a a thrill that words cannot express
In my heart a song of love is taunting me
Melody haunting me
Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in May
And she loves me
There is nothing more I can say
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: