Lyr Req: Old Fashioned Garden (Cole Porter)

Subject: misses giving old fashioned kisses
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 09:16 PM

This request was in a thread with a generic name, so I thought I'd transfer it over and see if we might have better luck with a specific thread title.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: Lyr&Tune req
From:

Andy

Date: 07-Nov-99 - 10:09 AM

There is a song containing this line:

"There's an old fashioned misses giving old fashioned kisses."

I would like to find the lyrics and the tune.

Subject: RE: Lyr&Tune req
From:

Magpie

Date: 07-Nov-99 - 02:57 PM

Andy, If you put th line from the song in the thread title, you're likely to get more people interested in the thread.

Personaly I don't have a clue about the song.

Good luck, though!

Magpie

Subject: RE: Lyr&Tune req
From:

Alan of Australia

Date: 07-Nov-99 - 07:27 PM

G'day,
If anyone has the tune you can have it posted on the Mudcat MIDI site. MIDI or ABC prefered. Click here for instructions, it's easy.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: misses giving old fashioned kisses
From: Art Thieme
Date: 17 Nov 99 - 11:48 AM

I'm an old guy (older every day) and I've been looking for these too---(as many as I can get)!!!

Yeah, I may be old, but I'm not dead.

Art

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: misses giving old fashioned kisses
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 04:08 PM

There's another request for this song that came in today in another thread. Anybody found the song yet?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: misses giving old fashioned kisses
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 01:03 AM

I found these lines quoted in a novel, The Pride of Palomar by Peter Bernard Kyne (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Company, 1921), page 241:

I saw an old-fashioned missus,
Taking old-fashioned kisses,
In an old-fashioned garden.
From an old-fashioned beau.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: misses giving old fashioned kisses
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 08:38 AM

Nowadays, the song is easy to find: "Old Fashioned Garden" by Cole Porter, 1919. A quick googling and utubing yields a page of sheet music and one of probably many YouTubes. Old-fashioned indeed.

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD FASHIONED GARDEN (Cole Porter, 1919)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 01:29 PM

From the sheet music at The Archive of Popular Music at UCLA:


OLD FASHIONED GARDEN (Duet)
Words and music by Cole Porter
New York: Harms Inc., 1919.

One summer day I chanced to stray
To a garden of flow'rs blooming wild,
It took me once more To the days of yore
And a spot that I loved as a child;
There were phlox, tall hollyhocks,
Violets perfuming the air,
Frail eglantines, shy columbines,
And marigolds everywhere.

CHORUS: It was an old fashioned garden
Just an old fashioned garden
But it carried me back
To that dear little shack
In the land of long ago.
I saw an old fashioned Missus
Getting old fashioned kisses
In that old fashioned garden
From an old fashioned beau.