Rose Ann Of Charing Cross

Written by: Kermit Goell

Written by: Mabel Wayne

Originally made famous by: Kate Smith

From the Album: In The Blue Of Evening

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Info: Since London's Charing Cross district was a popular hangout for "Ladies of the evening" during WW2, this song became something of a risqu‚ joke to English listeners.

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, I keep your mem'ry ever-bright

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, dressed in your uniform of white

There by my lonely bed, a lovely angel stopped and stared

"That's only thunder overhead"

And that's how we met

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, the rose you gave me never died

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, it knows one day you'll be my bride

And it will live till then, until that happy moment when

I know our paths will cross at Charing Cross again, Rose Ann

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, the rose you gave me never died

Rose Ann of Charing Cross, it knows one day you'll be my bride

And it will live till then, until that happy moment when

I know our paths will cross at Charing Cross again, Rose Ann