Music by: Haydn Wood
Arranged by: Robert Farnon
Originally made famous by: John McCormack
From the Album: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: June 13, 1962
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She is watching by the poplars,
Colinette with the sea-blue
eyes,
She is watching and longing, and
waiting
Where the long white roadway
lies,
And a song stirs in the silence,
As the wind in the boughs above,
She listens and starts and
trembles,
'Tis the first little song of
love.
Roses are shining in Picardy,
In the hush of the silver dew,
Roses are flow'ring in Picardy,
But there's never a rose like
you!
And the roses will die with the
summertime,
And our roads may be far apart,
But there's one rose that dies
not in Picardy,
'Tis the rose that I keep in my
heart
And the years fly on forever,
Till the shadows veil their
skies,
But he loves to hold her little
hands,
And look into her sea-blue eyes,
And she sees the road by the
poplars,
Where they met in the bygone
years,
For the first little song of the
roses,
Is the last little song she
hears:
Roses are shining in Picardy,
In the hush of the silver dew,
Roses are flow'ring in Picardy,
But there's never a rose like
you!
And the roses will die with the
summertime,
And our roads may be far apart,
But there's one rose that dies
not in Picardy,
'Tis the rose that I keep in my
heart