When You Wore a Tulip

DESCRIPTION: "I met you in a garden in an old Kentucky town... I kissed you, as I placed a yellow tulip in your hair." "When you wore a tulip... And I wore a big red rose,... 'twas then Heaven blessed me, What a blessing, no one knows." Years later, he still loves her
AUTHOR: Words: Jack Majoney / Music: Percy Wenrich (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (sheet music published by Leo, Feist, Inc.,)
KEYWORDS: love courting flowers | tulip rose
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Roud #22493
SAME TUNE:
I Wore a Tunic (File: BrPa047B)
You Drove a Buick (File: Brne151)
When I Was a Miner, A Hard-Rock Miner (File: LDC145)
When You Wear That Button (File: LDV546)
NOTES [28 words]: I have never encountered an actual traditional version of this, but the tune has been borrowed enough times that I thought it needed an entry for "Same Tune" purposes. - RBW
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