Lyrics to "While Strolling in the park One Day"(The Fountain in the Park)
W & M: ED HALEY (1884)
While strolling through the park one day
In the merry merry month of May
I was taken by surprise
By a pair of roguish eyes
In a moment my poor heart was stole away
A smile was all she gave to me
[soft-shoe break]
Of course we were as happy as can be
[soft-shoe break]
I immediately raised my hat
And finally she remarked
I never shall forget
That lovely afternoon
I met her at the fountain in the park
While strolling through the park one day
In the merry merry month of May
I was taken by surprise
By a pair of roguish eyes
In the merry merry month of May
W & M: ED HALEY (1884)
While strolling through the park one day
In the merry merry month of May
I was taken by surprise
By a pair of roguish eyes
In a moment my poor heart was stole away
A smile was all she gave to me
[soft-shoe break]
Of course we were as happy as can be
[soft-shoe break]
I immediately raised my hat
And finally she remarked
I never shall forget
That lovely afternoon
I met her at the fountain in the park
While strolling through the park one day
In the merry merry month of May
I was taken by surprise
By a pair of roguish eyes
In the merry merry month of May
8 comments:
Oh how well I remember this. Thanks for the memory.
The song is over 100 years old. How old ARE you that you remember it?
To Anonymous: There are patriotic songs older than this and they still enjoy an audience. I have heard this song over and over since being born in the 50's. I've heard it in movies, at concerts in the park, at pizza parlors, at Disneyland... I know Beverly remembers it for the same reasons. I can assure you that neither Beverly and I were around when this song was originally written.
KJ
While posting about my friend killed in the V'nam war, I looked for the lyrics of this song as it was a favorite of his & he would sing it as we strolled on the campus in the days before we were taken by the army.
We have been singing a version of this song to my niece, now 19, since she was born. We sub blue for roguish....and now she sings it to my youngest daughter, who has blue eys :)
It was song on the moon, during the Apollo 17 mission.
We used it as a musical number between acts during a high school production of "Dirty Work at the Crossroads OR Tempted, Tried and True"
Several decades later, I still recall most of it.
-i was strolling on the moon one day,
in the merry, merry month of december...
-no, may!
-...may.
-Apollo 17
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