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Thread #70106   Message #1194353
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-May-04 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Marta
Subject: Lyr Add: MARTA (Moises Simons & L. Wolfe Gilbert)
This site (click) has lyrics, and I double-checked them for accuracy in my MCA fakebook. Another site dated the song at 1931. But Seamus, is this the "Queen of the Wild Jungle" song you wanted? It appears that the best-known recordings of this song were by Tony Martin and Arthur Tracy. http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com appears to be a very credible site - it says the song was written by Moises Simons and L. Wolfe Gilbert, 1931; and was used in the movie musical The Big Broadcast (Arthur Tracy) in 1932. It was the theme song of Arthur Tracy ("The Street Singer").
-Joe Offer-

MARTA
(Moises Simons and L. Wolfe Gilbert, 1931)

Marta, rambling rose of the wildwood
Marta, with your fragrance divine
Rosebud, of the days of my childhood
Watched you bloom in the wild wood
and I hoped you'd be mine.
Marta, though your eyes beam at twilight
sparkling like each dewdrop at dawn
Marta, when I look for your love light
I awake with a sigh,
and I find you are gone

Marta, rambling rose of the wildwood
Marta, with your fragrance divine
Rosebud of the days of my childhood
Watched you bloom in the wildwood
and I hoped you'd be mine
Marta, now your eyes beam at twilight
sparkling like each dewdrop at dawn
Marta, when I look for your love light
I awake with a sigh,
and I find you are gone.