Roses of Picardy [French translation]

She is watching by the poplars

Colinette with the sea-blue eyes

She is watching and longing and waiting

Where the long white roadway lies

And a song stirs in the silence

As the wind in the boughs above

She listens and starts and trembles

'Tis the first little song of love:

Roses are shining in Picardy

In the hush of the silver dew

Roses are flowering in Picardy

But there's never a rose like you!

And the roses will die with the summertime

And our roads may be far apart

But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy

It is the rose that I keep in my heart

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And the years fly on forever

Till the shadows veil their skies

But he loves to hold her little hands

And look into her sea-blue eyes

And she sees the road by the poplars

Where they met in the bygone years

For the first little song of the roses

Is the last little song she hears:

Roses are shining in Picardy

In the hush of the silver dew

Roses are flowering in Picardy

But there's never a rose like you!

And the roses will die with the summertime

And our roads may be far apart

But there's one rose that dies not in Picardy

It is the rose that I keep in my heart…

• Artist:Mario Lanza