When You Wore A Tulip and I Wore A Big Red Rose
Music - Percy Wenrich
Key: C
Lyrics - Jack Mahoney
Copyright 1914

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File Created 08-18-2021

Verse 1:

C              A7
I met you in a garden
      D7
In an old Kentucky Town
    G               G7
The sun was shining down,
    C      Gbdim   G7
You wore a gingham gown;

  C
I kissed you,
     A7
As I placed a yellow
D7
Tulip in your hair,
  G               G7               C   FC
U-pon my coat you pinned a rose so rare

     F                    G7
Time has not changed your lov-li-ness
       C                A7
You're just as sweet to me
  D7
I love you yet,
                   G         Gdim AbdimG7 G7+
I can't forget the days that used to be.

Chorus:

     C
When you wore a tulip
               C7
A sweet yellow tulip
    F                C
And I wore a big red rose

F
When you caressed me,
      C           A7
'Twas then heaven blessed me
       D7              G7   G7+
What a blessing no one knows

C
You made life cheery
                   C7
When you called me dearie,
      F                         E7
'Twas down where the blue grass grows,

               A            A7
Your lips were sweeter than julep
     D7
When you wore that tulip
    G        G7      C   GdimG7
And I wore a big red rose

Verse 2:

    C                 A7
The love you vowed to cherish
        D7
Has not faltered thro' the years
    G             G7
You banish all my fears
    C         Gbdim  G7
You voice like music cheers

    C                  A7
You are the same sweet girl Iknew
   D7
In happy days of old
     G
Your hair is silver,
G7               C   FC
But you heart is gold

    F              G7
Red roses blush no longer
        C                   A7
In your cheeks so sweet and fair
   D7
It seems to me, dear I can see
     G     Gdim  AbdimG7   G7+
Whiteroses bloom-ing there

Chorus Repeat:

C


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