Bunch Of Violets Blue-John Kerr

[ti:Bunch Of Violets Blue] [ar:John Kerr] [al:Evergreen Favourites - Volume 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bunch Of Violets Blue - John Kerr [00:10.97]It was out in a moonlit garden [00:14.58] [00:15.31]Not far from the ballroom grand [00:18.71] [00:19.64]A soldier and his sweetheart [00:23.18] [00:24.03]Went strolling hand in hand [00:27.46] [00:28.59]Tomorrow the war would call him [00:31.80] [00:32.63]But he vowed he would be true [00:36.06] [00:36.97]Then from her breast she gave to him [00:41.28]A bunch of violets blue [00:44.71] [00:45.57]They were only a bunch of violets [00:48.99] [00:49.98]A bunch of violets blue [00:53.36] [00:54.52]Fresh and fair and dainty [00:57.63] [00:58.48]As far the end on the dew [01:01.99] [01:03.17]Fresh and fair and dainty [01:06.31] [01:07.09]As he pressed them to his heart [01:10.65] [01:11.50]He smiled and said where e'er he'd roam [01:15.99]From them he ne'er will part [01:19.33] [01:28.75]A soldier boy lay dying [01:32.25] [01:33.25]Upon the cold cold ground [01:36.57] [01:37.53]A bunch of withered violets [01:40.95] [01:42.06]Upon his breast was found [01:45.26] [01:46.40]Turning to his comrades [01:49.71] [01:50.56]In a feeble voice he cried [01:53.87] [01:55.03]Take them back and tell her [01:57.69] [01:58.41]That I wore them till I died [02:02.61] [02:03.53]So they took to her back those violets [02:07.12] [02:07.83]Been on her wedding day [02:11.37] [02:12.29]An old man's gold had won her [02:15.69] [02:16.49]From her soldier far away [02:20.02] [02:21.09]An old man's gold had won her [02:24.25] [02:25.16]From her soldier brave and tall [02:28.62] [02:29.65]And that was why she said to him [02:33.90]That evening at the ball [02:37.31] [02:38.02]They were only a bunch of violets [02:41.62] [02:42.62]A bunch of violets blue [02:45.91] [02:47.00]Fresh and fair and dainty [02:50.22] [02:50.93]As far the end on the dew [02:54.50] [02:55.53]Fresh and fair and dainty [02:58.82] [02:59.52]As he pressed them to his heart [03:03.13] [03:03.96]And sworn to her where e'er he'd roam [03:08.17]From them he ne'er would part