Bunch Of Violets Blue-Brendan Shine

[ti:Bunch Of Violets Blue] [ar:Brendan Shine] [al:The Best Of Irish Showbands] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bunch Of Violets Blue - Brendan Shine [00:00.62]It was up in a moonlit garden [00:04.47] [00:05.34]Not far from the ballroom grand [00:08.91] [00:09.70]A young lad and his sweetheart [00:13.88]Went strolling hand in hand [00:17.81] [00:18.37]Tomorrow the war would call him [00:22.00] [00:22.54]He vowed he would be true [00:26.04] [00:26.91]Then from her breast she gave to him [00:31.42]A bunch of violets blue [00:35.04] [00:35.55]It was only a bunch of violets [00:39.26] [00:39.96]A bunch of violets blue [00:43.57] [00:44.53]Fresh and fair and fragrant [00:48.45]Like diamonds on the dew [00:53.12]Fresh and fair and dainty [00:56.31] [00:56.92]As he pressed them to his heart [01:00.74] [01:01.34]He smiled and said wherever he'd roam [01:05.66]From them he'd never would part [01:09.87]A soldier boy lay dying [01:14.13]Upon the cold cold ground [01:18.00] [01:18.58]A bunch of withered violets [01:22.83]Upon his breast was found [01:26.76] [01:27.44]Turning to his comrades [01:31.34]In a feeble voice he sighed [01:35.31] [01:35.93]Take them back and tell her [01:39.21]That I wore them till I died [01:44.37]They took her witherded violets [01:47.74]Back [01:48.74]It being on her wedding day [01:52.98]An old man's gold had won her [01:56.77] [01:57.30]From a soldier far away [02:01.67]An old man's gold had won her [02:05.91]From a soldier young and tall [02:10.24]And this is what she said to him [02:14.40]That evening at the ball [02:18.77]It was only a bunch of violets [02:22.45] [02:23.08]A bunch of violets blue [02:26.81] [02:27.63]Fresh and fair and fragrant [02:31.01] [02:31.53]Like diamonds on the dew [02:35.51] [02:36.11]Fresh and fair and dainty [02:39.43] [02:39.96]As he pressed them to his heart [02:43.72] [02:44.30]He smiled and said wherever he'd roam [02:48.49]From them he'd never would part