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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."
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