Lyr Req: who sang 'once upon a rose'?

Subject: Lyr Req: who sang 'once upon a rose'?
From: GUEST,dhcox
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 03:55 PM

A few years ago I recorded a song off the radio (without the accompanying DJ info on who sang it). Either from "The Folk Sampler", or the "Midnight Special", or possibly from a folk program on WTJU (Charlottesville, VA). I cannot find it online by a lyric search. Solo female voice, and guitar, and cello coming in on second verse. Lyrics:

Once upon a rose
Lived a very little princess
Rooming all alone, a'settled on her throne
She was the queen of everything she could see
And she fell in love with a honey bee

Everyday at dawn, when the sun lit up the petals
The honeybee would come and find the rose's tongue
She'd say hello but he'd ignore her and just go
He was so busy he'd miss the kisses she would blow

Waiting, waiting, hoping, dreaming
That one day he would wake up
She's the queen of all the garden
But she can't make him fall in love

One day she was gone
But a first he didn't notice
Then slowly he began to feel the coldness of the morn
He never knew of all the love she felt for him
And so it goes, you never know what might have been

Can anyone identify this song?

Thanks.