Somewhere In France Is the Lily lyrics

One day as morning shed its glow

Across the eastern sky,

A boy and girl in accents low,

In a garden said "Goodbye!"

She said, "Remember as you stray,

When each must do his share,

The flowers blooming here today

Are emblems over there!"

Chorus:

Somewhere in France is the Lily,

Close by the English Rose;

A Thistle so keen, and a Shamrock green,

And each loyal flow'r that grows.

Somewhere in France is a sweetheart,

Facing the battle's chance,

For the flow'r of our youth fights for freedom and truth

Somewhere in France.

Each morning in that garden fair,

Where sweetest perfumes dwell,

The lassie whispers low a pray'r

For the flowr's she loves so well.

And over there as night draws near,

Amid the shot and flame,

Unto the flag he holds so dear,

A soldier breathes her name.

• Artist:American Folk