Lyr Req: My Wild Irish Rose

Subject: Lyric Req: My Wild Irish Rose
From:
Date: 20 Mar 97 - 09:48 PM

Looked in the Database and didn't find it or find it in several other sources. Anyone have the lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyric Req: My Wild Irish Rose
From: mim
Date: 21 Mar 97 - 02:50 AM

My Wild Irish Rose
The sweetest flower that grows
You may search everywhere, but none can compare
With my Wild Irish Rose.
My Wild Irish Rose
The dearest flower that grows,
And some day for my sake, she may let me take
The bloom from my Wild Irish Rose.

Copyright, M. Whitmark & Sons

No author given.

Subject: RE: Lyric Req: My Wild Irish Rose
From: Bill
Date: 21 Mar 97 - 03:23 AM

Howdy,

Reader's Digest Family Songbook gives credit for words and music to Chauncey Olcott. It says MWIR came from an 1899 Broadway show, A Romance in Athlone.

Allinkausay, Bill

Subject: Lyr Add: MY WILD IRISH ROSE (Chauncey Olcott)
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 21 Mar 97 - 08:03 AM

Often you only hear the chorus, and the second verse is rare. Incredibly, Olcott also collaborated on the lyric of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and the music for "Mother Machree".

...Tiger

MY WILD IRISH ROSE
words and music by Chauncey Olcott, copyright 1899

If you'll listen, I'll sing you a sweet little song,
Of a flower that's now drooped and dead,
Yet dearer to me, yes, than all of its mates,
Tho' each holds aloft its proud head.

'Twas given to me by a girl that I know,
Since we've met, faith, I've known no repose,
She is dearer by far than the world's brightest star,
And I call her my wild Irish Rose

CHORUS
My wild Irish Rose,
The sweetest flow'r that grows,
You may search ev'rywhere,
But none can compare
With my wild Irish Rose.

My wild Irish Rose,
The dearest flow'r that grows,
And some day for my sake,
She may let me take
The bloom from my wild Irish Rose.

They may sing of their roses which, by other names,
Would smell just as sweetly, they say,
But I know that my Rose would never consent
To have that sweet name taken away.

Her glances are shy when e'er I pass by
The bower, where my true love grows;
And my one wish has been that some day I may win
The heart of my wild Irish Rose.

CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Wild Irish Rose
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Feb 23 - 02:28 PM

The amateur chorus which I just joined as a new member,
is getting ready to sing an arrangement of this song.
For what it's worth,
the arrangement credits author Chauncey Olcott
and it has ALL the verses as well as the chorus,
just as printed in the post before this one.

This arrangement for mixed chorus
has a copyright year of 1933 (MCMXXXIII)
and the publisher is M. Witmark & Sons.