From the comic opera “Merry England”, 1902.
Words by Basil Hood.
Music by Edward German.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Dan Cupid hath a garden
Where women are the flow’rs
And lovers’ laughs and lovers’ tears
The sunshine and the show’rs
And oh! the sweetest blossom
That in the garden grows
The fairest Queen, it is, I ween
The perfect English rose
The fairest Queen, it is, I ween
The perfect, the perfect English rose
Let others make a garland
Of ev’ry flow’r that blows
But I will wait till I may pluck
My dainty English rose
In perfume, grace, and beauty
The rose doth stand apart
God grant that I, before I die
May wear one on my heart
Got grant that I, before I die
May wear one, may wear one on my heart
May wear one on my heart
May wear one on my heart
Sung here by Fred Feild: