Roses Of Picardy-Simon Gilbert

[ti:Roses Of Picardy] [ar:Simon Gilbert] [al:Songs From Yesteryear] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Roses Of Picardy - Simon Gilbert [00:09.73]She is watching by the poplars [00:14.55]Colinette with the sea-blue eyes [00:18.04] [00:18.85]She is watching and longing and waiting [00:22.86] [00:23.56]Where the long white roadway lies [00:27.99] [00:28.85]And a song stirs in the silence [00:33.51]As the wind in the boughs above [00:37.72] [00:38.28]She listens and starts and trembles [00:44.24] [00:44.76]'Tis the first little song of love [00:52.82] [00:55.26]Roses are shining in Picardy [01:01.18] [01:01.84]In the hush of the silver dew [01:08.24] [01:10.16]Roses are flow'ring in Picardy [01:15.70] [01:16.37]But there's never a rose like you [01:23.04] [01:24.03]And the roses will die with the summertime [01:30.78] [01:31.75]And our roads may be far apart [01:39.08] [01:39.62]But there's one rose [01:42.55]That dies not in Picardy [01:48.58] [01:49.32]'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart [01:59.28] [02:11.38]And the years fly on forever [02:16.62]Till the shadows veil their skies [02:20.74] [02:21.61]But he loves to hold her little hands [02:25.96] [02:26.59]And look into her sea-blue eyes [02:31.11] [02:31.92]And she sees the road by the poplars [02:37.12]Where they met in the bygone years [02:41.55] [02:42.12]For the first little song of the roses [02:48.22] [02:49.21]Is the last little song she hears: [02:57.14] [03:00.12]Roses are shining in Picardy [03:07.39]In the hush of the silver dew [03:13.58] [03:15.28]Roses are flow'ring in Picardy [03:22.03]But there's never a rose like you [03:29.51] [03:30.36]And the roses will die with the summertime [03:37.41] [03:38.38]And our roads may be far apart [03:46.56]But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy [03:56.25] [03:57.09]'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart