Lyr Req/Add: The Peony Bush (from Danny Kaye)

Subject: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 06:11 PM

Hi, Does anyone have the lyrics for The Peony Bush, recorded by Danny Kaye in 1949? Lots of Thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: EBarnacle
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:30 PM

Try this site:

https://trio.hnh.com/scripts/loginsub/default.asp?pn=login&item_code=8.120775

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: DonMeixner
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:46 PM

Probably a Sylvia Fine tune. Danny's wife wrote just about everythong he ever did.

Don

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: DonMeixner
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:11 PM

Nope,

Meredith Willson it seems was the perpetrator of The Peony Bush song.

Don "Correcting himself" Meixner

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:39 PM

Lyrics requested five years ago, thread 19805. No takers.

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Threads combined. Thanks, Q.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Peony Bush
From: GUEST,dave'swife sans cookie
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 11:57 PM

Lord help me, I'm so tired that scanning the thread list made this title look to me as if it were

Lyr Req: Danny Kaye's The Pee on my Bush

Of course, I just got back in from walking my dog....

Subject: ADDPOP: The Peony Bush (from Danny Kaye)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 12:09 AM

I couldn't resist - I bought the CD so I could hear this song.

THE PEONY BUSH
(Meredith Willson - as recorded by Danny Kaye)

'Twas the peony bush there in my garden
That made you turn around and smile at me.
Not the zinnias or gardenias with their fragrant perfume,
Forget-me-nots in fancy pots or orchids in-a bloom;
But the peony bush there in my garden
It did the trick as quick as one-two-three.
Please decorate my garden gate forever
And never will there be any bush.
But the peony bush for me.

Every rose, every tree, every bird and bee
Seem to rate a rondolet or two.
So a slight poetic push for my favorite bush
Would seem to be long overdue.

'Twas the peony bush there in my garden
That made you turn around and smile at me.
Not the zinnias or gardenias with their fragrant perfume,
Forget-me-nots in fancy pots or orchids in-a bloom;
But the peony bush there in my garden
It did the trick as quick as one-two-three.
Please decorate my garden gate forever
And never will there be any bush,
But the peony bush for me.

transcribed by ear from Danny Kaye - Cocktail Hour, a compilation by Allegro.

I may have misunderstood a word or two here and there, but I think it's a pretty accurate transcription. "And never will there be any bush But the peony bush for me" was a bit hard to pick out, but that must be it.

Fun song, but weird. But then, my kids think I'm weird.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Req/ADD: The Peony Bush (from Danny Kaye)
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:29 PM

Wonderful! Now where can I get a copy of this?