This is another "MudCat" scoop…..an hour search of the web could not find the lyrics anywhere…..(a song "everyone" knows - but doesn't know?) A five minute search found them in the WWI sheet music stack. When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore Big Red Rose

Words by Jack Mahony
Music by Percy Wenrich
Published Leo Feist, New York 1914
2/4 time (tempo di marcia (Not too fast)
Advertised on cover as "Dolly Connoll's Big Hit"

I met you in a gar-den in an old Ken-tuck-y town,
The sun was shin-ing dow, you wore a ging-ham gown,
I kissed you, as I placed a yel-low tul-ip in your hair,
Up-on my coar you pinned a rose so rare. -
Time has no hcange your lov-li-ness, you're just as sweet to me,
I love you yet, I con't for-get the days that used to be.

CHORUS
When you wore a tul-lip, a sweet yel-low tul-ip, and I wore a big red rose,
When you ca-ressed me, 'twas then Heav-en blessed me, what bles-sing, no-one knows.
You made life cheer-ie, when you called me dear-ie, 'twas down where the blue grass grows.
Your lips were sweet-er than jul-ep, when you wore that tul-ip and I wore a big red rose.

The love you vowed to cher-ish has not fal-tered thro' the years,
You banish all my fears, your voice like music cheers,
You are the same sweet girl I knew in the hap-py days of old,
Your hair is sil-ver, but your heart is gold. -
Red ros-es blush no long-er in your cheeks so sweet and fair,
It seems to me, dear, I can see white roses blooming there.

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