Roses Of Picardy-Alfie Boe

[00:10]She is watching by the poplars [00:14]Colinette with the sea-blue eyes [00:20]She is watching and longing and waiting [00:24]Where the long white roadway lies [00:29]And a song stirs in the silence [00:35]As the wind in the boughs above [00:40]She listens and starts and trembles [00:47]'Tis the first little song of love [00:55]Roses are shining in Picardy [01:01]In he hush of the silver dew [01:09]Roses are flow'ring in Picardy [01:15]But there's never a rose like you [01:21]And the roses will die with the summertime [01:28]And our roads may be far apart [01:35]But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy [01:42]'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart [02:00]And the years fly on forever [02:05]Till the shadows veil their skies [02:10]But he loves to hold her little hands [02:16]And look into her sea-blue eyes [02:21]And she sees the road by the poplars [02:26]Where they met in the bygone years [02:31]For the first little song of the roses [02:38]Is the last little song she hears: [02:47]Roses are shining in Picardy [02:54]In the hush of the silver dew [03:02]Roses are flow'ring in Picardy [03:08]But there's never a rose like you [03:15]And the roses will die with the summertime [03:22]And our roads may be far apart [03:29]But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy [03:36]'Tis the rose that I keep in my heart