From the 1922 musical comedy “The Cabaret Girl”. words by P. G. Wodehouse and Anne Caldwell music by Jerome Kern
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Lyrics
Refrain
There she stood in a world of roses
Eyes a-dreaming and sweet cheeks a-glow
Breezes playing went a-straying
Through her tresses with soft caresses
All around, with their petals gleaming
Shone the roses in a brave array
But the first rose that blooms in summer
Was not so lovely as her face that day
Refrain
There we stood in a world of roses
‘Neath the shy light of the sickle moon
Birds were sleeping, stars were peeping
In the gloaming the bats were roaming
All around in the dewy twilight
All the roses hid their heads away
But the first rose that blooms in summer
Was not so lovely as her face that day
Performance
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