Lavender Blue

Cook Barbara

The Disney Album

Lavender Blue

Great-grandmother met great-grandfather

When she was a shy young miss

And great-grandmother won great-grandfather

With words, more or less, like this...

Lavender blue dilly dilly

Lavender green

If you were king dilly dilly,

You'd need a queen

Who told me so dilly dilly

Who told me so?

I told myself dilly dilly

I told me so

If your dilly dilly heart

Feels a dilly dilly way

And if you'll answer "yes,"

In a pretty little church,

On a dilly dilly day,

I'll be wed in a dilly dilly dress of

Lavender blue dilly dilly

Lavender green

Then you'll be king dilly dilly

And I'll be your queen

If your dilly dilly heart

Feels a dilly dilly way

And if you'll answer "yes,"

In a pretty little church,

On a dilly dilly day,

I'll be wed in a dilly dilly dress of

Lavender blue dilly dilly

Lavender green

Then you'll be king dilly dilly

And I'll be your queen

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Note: From the 1949 Disney film, "So Dear To My Heart" (and sung by Burl Ives

in the film). Nominated for a "Best Song" Academy Award for 1949; lost to

the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from the film "Neptune's Daughter."