From the musical “The Wildflower”, 1923
Words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Vincent Youmans and Herbert Stothart
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
I call you wild-flower, my little wild-flower
For sweet and fragrant, perverse and vagrant
You’re ever dancing, oh so entrancing
The sunshine haunts you, the rain drop taunts you
The zephyr woos you, all things amuse you
You’re never lonely, forgetting only me
Refrain
Wild-flower, I love you
(My little wild-flower, my little wild-flower)
What else can I do?
(My little wild-flower, my little wild-flower)
When I see you swaying while the breezes all caress you
Then my heart is praying
That I too may hold and press you
Wild-flower, tell me true
(My little wild-flower, my little wild-flower)
If you only knew
(My little wild-flower, my little wild-flower)
How I want the blisses
That the sun gets from your kisses
Would you love me too?
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: